Polio
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FDR ~ "Ceremony to unveil FDR statue - wheelchair and all" FDR ~ "Statue of FDR in wheelchair dedicated" "Final Push in Campaign to Eradicate Polio" Dr. Jonas Salk ~~ Developer of Polio Vaccine |
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TIMELINE |
Jerry Trumpka – Jeanne
Knopf DeRoche |
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1882 - January 30 |
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1905 |
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1921, August 21 |
Franklin Roosevelt contracted poliomyelitis, age 39, never again walks unaided |
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1932, November 8 |
Franklin Roosevelt elected 32nd President of the United States. FDR served 4 terms: 1933 - 1945 |
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1938 |
FDR established the March of Dimes, a nonprofit organization dedicated to putting an end to polio |
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1941 |
March of Dimes provides first iron lung to assist polio victims. |
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1945, April 12 |
FDR died, Warm Springs Arkansas |
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"We did not know until Roosevelt had died, in April 1945, how distraught and disoriented he had been, how morally sick, for the last year of life. We never knew for twenty more years until Churchill's doctor published a diary that during the three and a half years when Roosevelt and Churchill were companions in arms, and during which Churchill had borne responsibility for the daily operations of every theater of the war, that Churchill had suffered one serious heart attack, three pneumonias, two strokes, an abdominal operation, hernia, deafness, an intractable skin disease, eye trouble and innumerable minor ailments. That these two great men and chronic invalids should, more than any other two humans, have run and won the war for us is a mystery that, as Dr. Buechner might say, `some people call luck, some coincidence, and some call the grace of God.'" [Alistair Cooke] |
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1949 |
March of Dimes selects Dr. Jonas Salk to lead research on classifying polio viruses. |
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1950, March 22 |
Sandra Sagear was born |
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1951 |
With $1 million in March of Dimes support, scientists identify all three polio virus types. |
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1953 |
Dr. Salk confirms the feasibility of a killed-virus vaccine for polio. |
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1954 |
March of Dimes runs field trials of Salk vaccine with 1,830,000 schoolchildren participating. The test is the largest peacetime mobilization of volunteers in history. |
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1955, April 12 |
Dr. Salk announced a "safe, effective, & potent" vaccine in the fight against polio |
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1958 |
March of Dimes initiates the first concerted efforts to save babies from birth defects. |
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1960 |
March of Dimes establishes The Salk Institute for Biological Studies in La Jolla, Calif. |
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1979, October |
The 12-year smallpox eradication campaign and the global certification of the eradication of the disease established many of the basic principles now being used for the certification of the eradication of polio. |
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1985 |
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1992, April 2 |
Sandra Sagear died |
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1994 |
Western Hemisphere declared polio-free |
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1999, July 1 |
Rotary International has committed US $340 million for global polio eradication |
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2000 |
The Final Push in Campaign to Eradicate Polio by WHO & UNICEF |
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"Only once in human history have we witnessed the total eradication of a dreaded disease, and that was smallpox more than two decades ago. Now humanity stands on the brink of a second triump: the global eradication of polio -- a scourge that at one time killed or crippled half a million people a year, many of them children. ... We cannot afford to falter, not when we are so close." [Carol Bellamy, UNICEF] |
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"Had smallpox not been eradicated in 1979, it would have been impossible to eradicate it today because people who are HIIV positive would most likely not be able to recive the vaccine against it. For polio, we have a brief window of opportunity and we need to grasp it. That is why this year's effort is so crucial. ... Thirty children paralysed by polio each day is 30 children too many. Every child counts. Byt the end of this year no child need ever again live in the shadow of this disease. [Dr. Gro Harlem Brundtland, Director-General, WHO] |
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