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The Polio Crusade
Alan ColburnDepartment of Science Education
California State University, Long Beach
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Living with the Threat of Infantile Paralysis
Words on the Sign
INFANTILEPARALYSIS
POLIOMYELITIS
INFANTILE PARALYSIS IS VERY PREVALENT IN THIS PART OF THE CITY.
ON SOME STREETS MANY CHILDREN ARE ILL. THIS IS ONE OF THE STREETS.
KEEP OFF THIS STREET.
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Polio
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FDR is Stricken with Polio (1921)
For the first time a “famous” adult acquires the disease.
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Warm Springs
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The March of Dimes
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Jonas Salk
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Killed vs. Live Virus Vaccines
Jonas Salk Alfred Sabin
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Testing the Salk Vaccine
July 2, 1952: 43 children at the D. T. Watson Home for Crippled Children are injected with the killed virus vaccine. Salk also injects himself and his children.
Testing continues at the Polk State School for the Retarded and Feeble Minded.
In 1953 the March of Dimes announces they will fund the largest experiment the world had ever seen. Hundreds of thousands of school children will be injected with the Salk vaccine or a placebo. Hundreds of thousands more will receive no injections but act as “observed controls.”
You are about to find out what happened . . .