1954


 * 1954**

Dr. Jonas Salk and Dr. Thomas Francis were doing a test of a vaccine in 1954 to help stop one of the most dreaded diseases called poliomyelitis, commonly known as polio. This disease had killed or disabled more than 20,000 children in the United States every year before the invention of this vaccine. Franklin D. Roosevelt was one of these people and suffered with his disabilities for the rest of his life.

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