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Jonas Salk

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From 1947-1953, Jonas Salk lived with his family in a home formerly located on this site while working on the development of the first effective polio vaccine. Shalom Research Farms, part of which is now Pine Community Park, raised animals in the Salk polio vaccine research program.
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