Polio
Description:
B+W March of Dimes film on polio (infantile paralysis) and development of vaccine in 1953 for 3 types of the virus. Dr. Jonas Salk. FDR in Warm Springs, Georgia. Children walking with crutches and leg braces. Patients on rocking beds, iron lung, and respirators. 1916 epidemic in New York. Lab research on monkeys and mice. Infectious disease scientist Dr. John Enders at Harvard University.
