Nearly 2 Million Children Participate in Polio Trials that Proved Successful

Up to this day in 1954 in American history, even a president of the United States, later President Franklin Delano Roosevelt, could be struck down by the debilitating effects of paralysis that is the signature of poliovirus.  The irony is that very few Americans perceived Roosevelt as “handicapped,” according to presidential historians. On April 26, 1954, hopes were high at the Franklin Sherman Elementary School in McLean, Virginia, where an ambitious effort to test a polio...

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