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Polio is an incurable disease . Even today, despite all our technological and medical advances, the illness cannot be cured. It can, however, be prevented. This clip, from “Unconditional Surrender“ - a film about polio and its first preventive vaccine by Dr. Jonas Edward Salk and his colleagues - takes us behind the scenes in the 1950s when polio was quickly and consistently spreading among children throughout America. In 1952, for example, an outbreak of polio caused many people to be placed in iron lungs. The photos depict multiple iron-lung patients being cared-for by nurses that year. Join as a member to support this channel:
