Sabin, Developer of Polio Vaccine, Ailing
Associated Press
CATANIA, Sicily —
Dr. Albert Sabin, 80, who developed the oral polio vaccine, was hospitalized after suffering chest pains while on a flight Sunday from Rome to Sicily, doctors said today.
Doctors said that Sabin was suffering from spasmodic angina, an acute heart pain that often precedes a heart attack, and that he was in stable condition, having improved overnight.
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