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While she had been at the center of the polio controversy, she had the courage to stand by her convictions and research against significant opposition. She continued to contribute to the field of biologics and went on to discover the S-E polyoma virus and SV-40.

She Dr. Eddy later won a Superior Service Medal from the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare (DHEW) in 1967 for her work on control testing of vaccines for polio-myelitis and respiratory diseases, and for her discovery and characterization of tumorigenic viruses.

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