Conquering the polio epidemic 

My Dad has polio in 1924. He was left walking with brace and cane. As soon as the vaccine was ready we were in line at school to get it. I remember it some 50 years later. It was a big deal for us as a family.

polio sounds soo much scarier than COVID-19 or Coronavirus

I have been saying since this Covid 19 Pandemic started that it reminds me of Polio. When I was a teenager I saw an iron lung in a German hospital, I am in my 50ies now and I still have nightmares about this contraption knowing that it saved thousands and thousands of lives. Thank you Jonas Salk, I am hoping that the world will see another Jonas Salk moment for Covid 19

My dad got polio when he was six and now battling post polio syndrome. The vaccine was new and my grandparents didn't want to vaccine my dad and his brothers. After my dad got polio, his parents then decided to vaccinate his other 3 brothers.

I was only 8 months old, when i contacted polio. But i only got it on my right leg. but mother made sure that i would be just as normal as everyone else. I am now 70 yrs old and in a wheelchair, but i did get married for times, and had 4 children, all are grown up. 2 girls & 2 boys and I lost one with a misscarge. Love all of them even the one i misscarage.

My mother-in-law survived polio in the early 40s(she was a teen) she was bedridden for months and suffered some muscle athropy in her wrists/arms but otherwise was lucky to recover relatively well compared to many others. She was very keen her children all got vaccinated.

Thank you Dr. Salk and all the pioneers, the world will be indebted to you always.

My grandfather had polio and then post polio syndrome.

But this is a very good short documentary. It is great that Salk and Sabin refused to take money or profits from the vacinne: Here is Sabin's approach: "Sabin refused to patent his vaccine, waiving every commercial exploitation by pharmaceutical industries, so that the low price would guarantee a more extensive spread of the treatment..."

If we had Facebook in the 1950s we would still have polio in the USA

History will usually tell you what happens next

History just repeats for people who forget. What about those who didn't even get close to understand history? They go out to street and trust people next to them, equally ignorant.

During the outbreak, Michigan's Upper Peninsula was said to have one of the most sever rates of polio, having 320 confirmed cases. At one point, 13 people required an Iron Lung to survive, but only 1 commercial respirator was available in the UP. A few Yoopers got together to build more - using a wooden cabinet, a vacuum cleaner, and a record player (to make it automatic). State Troopers and other community members drove hours around the UP to pick up kids and bring them to St. Lukes Hospital in Marquette where the best help, and respirators, were.

Wow I’m reading the stories in the comments and it just makes me think about how I’ll look back at the past. I’m 22 and I can imagine being older telling my grandkids about the covid pandemic! Thanks for sharing your stories!

I had polio in 1959 . Not sure what month i got sick. I was 3 when I got sick and was in Childrens hospital Los Angeles for 3 1/2 months. It freaked everyone out because the vaccine was already available. That is when they figured out somehow I got it from vaccine . I have no lasting problems. It was kind of mild because it was from the vaccine. I remember all of it . I remember how my leg hurt . I can remember the pain. My leg was drawn up to my chin . I was in traction for the 3 1/2 months.

History is a big circle. 💔

I remember how terrified my mother was of polio back in the early 50s. When the school I went to was chosen for vaccine trials in 1954, I remember bringing the permission slip to participate home to her and demanding that she sign it so I could fight polio. I was a 7-year-old second grader at the time. I still have my card and my pin proclaiming that I am a polio pioneer for taking part. If I never do anything else in my life, at least I was one of the many who helped conquer this disease.

I grew up as kid in 1960s. Out in public, periodically I would see A person hobbling around on crutches and wearing metal leg braces. My mom’s friend had polio.

Thank you for this program and history.

I remember the lonely years, the emphasis on sanitation and quarantines. No swimming pools, rollar rinks shut down and finally the Salk vaccine by injection.

I love this TV show. One day I'll have more time to actually watch it.

My dad had polio when he was a young boy. He eventually recovered from it, thanks in part to Sister Kenny.

I love that you used a picture of people with polio from the vaccine 😂

Right now we’re learning about polio in my school I know how much it affected people in the time period that it was in I’m so sorry for all those families that went through that I know how much polio can hurt and the time period that it was him they did not have the medicine or the doctors or the equipment like we do today to fight polio like we do with coronavirus

and then he GAVE it to the world...an altruistic moment that is lacking today...

I got Polio at the age of 2 years old and now I have pps, I'm 76 years old, I'm very blessed,I have good days,and I have bad days.

I contracted Polio in 1955. I was one of the last 2 cases in Queens NYC. I was 4 years old. The Polio vaccine appeared a few months later.

I wish you would educate people about Sister Kenny.

Thanks for sharing!please tray to be the best in the world to help all people with poliomyelitis!👏🥰🍀

Love and comfort and joy

My grandma’s cousin had polio. She was in an iron lung for a few weeks. My grandma remembers writing her cards while she was sick. She is doing better now but her legs are still weak sometimes.

Different era we live in

Fortunately, the COVID-19 vaccine took months, vs. the years that the polio treatments took. Salk and Sabin, I just found out, hated each other and took pleasure when the other had setbacks.

What I find weird people inside the metal lungs that there belly’s are really big..

Anybody old enough to remember when they were gassing everybody with DDT to "combat polio?" I hope you're paying attention this time

the majority of the children that the vaccines were tested on were disabled children who could not consent/volunteer - this should also be mentioned during discussion of creating a polio vaccine

We need more doctors like Salk

00:36 we’re can I find this broadcast by Walter?

Here we are in summer of 2022 & polio is making a comeback. Let the battle of coronavirus, monkey pox and polio begin.. 🥴

She definitely have a story to tell

What if you got polio and coronavirus at the same time

Wild people need to know this

My mother is one of few that is still living that had caught police in 1957

I got vaccinated at 5-6 years old. My first cousin, Jimmy Tom, same age, did not and caught it that year. He lived to be 40, handicapped and used braces on his legs. It finally killed him. He was my best pal in the Sacramento area.

I was a baby at the time so I do not remember the big scare. I remember getting the sugar cube at school. I now can understand the fear with the virus now. Thank God people got the shots unlike now.

Jonas Salk is the biggest chad in history.

It seems there is a polio outbreak now in Malawi 💔

How do we get this on FOX so Trump will watch it?

why dont no one talks about it alot or teachers or mom or dad about polio.

She’s so lucky!!! I think talking to the last man alive in an iron lung ( Paul ) would of had a deeper impact …..

if I was there, I would've just stayed home

it's back.

I ask folks around my age regarding the covid shot if they remember something similar from when we were kids. Very few make the polio-covid similarities.

A Also Goodwill of Orange County - Community Based Services is closed down due to the COVID-19 virus from March 18th, 2020 until further notice.

Poliovirus is a lot scarier than the coronavirus

So happy I had the tdp shot, still walking easily. However we need to tell people that even tho developed countries are more healthy, it can confuse. Illnesses can still exist

That Dr. Paul Du Pray guy looks weird with his mustache 😂

Why are they talking so slowly?

LOL

He sounds like he from Northern Ireland

My great aunt had polio and I had AFM which is modern polio when I was 4 in 2014

Luckily to the people's that doesn't had polio.

0:16 I feel little kids pain

They didn't profit, but served their nation and the rest of the world. My mother was extremely proud to be the same profession as Sabin and Salk. She was an RN for 40+ yrs and served as a nurse in WWII. She loved her country. yet she thought healthcare should be universal and not be driven by greedy profiteers. Please get vaccinated and help your family, community, nation.

Not me remembering the head with an iron lung from JESSIE's future episode

It always goes to the nasty, infested big Apple. Lol

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If social media exist in this time, i think the polio would still here

Were there polio deniers?

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Lots of Americans didnt even know Roosevelt was paralyzed because he did his speeches over the radio

Read, Tortuga: A Novel by Rudolfo Anaya, loudly!

Why you dont talk about than polish Men Hilary Koprowski make the first antidotum in the polio.

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Why is not necessary many polio vaccine jabs to keep immunity?

Love Dr. Suzanne Humphries book " Dissolving Illusions" and her other book "rising from the Dead". Interesting video on this topic .My uncle died from polio before the shot came out but he passed as a result of a weakened immune system and it was is time ( it was in God's hands).

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Polio basicly means you cant move a limb 🦵💪 and just paralys like a noodle

Oof polio has reach the Philippines now good thing I'm 11 year old

13 Things You Didn't Know About Polio 1. In the 1800's a popular wallpaper called Paris Green was infused with a potent pesticide. Some of the most toxic substances known to man: copper and arsenic or lead and arsenic. 2. This pesticide worked by causing neurological damage in the bugs, causing organ failure. 3. Polio consists of symptoms synonymous with neurological damage, causing organ failure. 4. Heavy metal poisoning from lead, mercury and other similar heavy metals manifest lesions on neurological tissues, meaning the toxin destroys the nerve/communication pathways connecting the brain to the organs in the body. 5. Polio victims present lesions on neurological tissue, that cause the organs to malfunction all around the body. (lungs, heart, nerves that control walking etc) 6. Polio outbreaks hit throughout the summer, only during pesticide spraying times. (not the sunless and damp winter/spring seasons like other disease outbreaks) 7. Polio had NO ability to spread from infected victims to the uninfected. Polio infected clusters of people in the exact same areas, suddenly and swiftly. 8. Parents report finding their children paralyzed in and around apple orchards. One of the most heavily pesticide sprayed crops of the time (with lead arsenate or copper arsenate) were apple orchards. 9. President Roosevelt became paralyzed over night while on his farm in the summer, which contained many crops, including apple orchards. He also swam the day prior in a bay that was heavily polluted by industrial agricultural run off. 10. Dr. Ralph Scobey and Dr. Mortind Biskind testified in front of the U.S Congress in 1951 that the paralysis around the country known as polio was being caused by industrial poisons and that a virus theory was purposely fabricated by the chemical industry and the government to deflect litigation away from both parties. 11. In 1956 the AMA (The American Medical Association) instructed each licensed medical doctor that they could no longer classify polio as polio, or their license to practice would be terminated. Any paralysis was now to be diagnosed as AFP (acute flaccid paralysis) MS, MD, Bell's Palsy, cerebral palsy, ALS (Lou Gehrig's Disease), Guillian-Barre etc etc. This was orchestrated purposely to make the public believe polio was eradicated by the polio vaccine campaign, but because the polio vaccine contained toxic ingredients directly linked to paralysis, polio cases (not identified as polio) were skyrocketing...but only in vaccinated areas. 12. The first polio vaccine was worked on by Dr. Jonas Salk and human experiments using this vaccine were conducted purposely on orphans in government/church run institutions because they were vulnerable and didn't require any parental consent signatures, as they had no parents. The vaccine was "declared safe" by "medicine" (as they always are) and that vaccine gave 40,000 orphans polio, permanently paralyzed hundreds and killed at least 10 children. All injuries and deaths under-reported of course by the same authorities who orchestrated the atrocity. This was called The Cutter Incident. 13. The next "improved" polio vaccine, given to hundreds of millions, carried both the SV 40 cancer virus as well as the AIDS virus. Every step of the way, medicine declaring they know for sure, that this time, they have everything straightened out. Same story then, same story now.

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Stop saying "like covid 19", covid 19 isn't even remotely in the same universe of how truly devastating polio was. Covid 19 is a bad cough, polio ruins your entire life

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Jonas Salk was a true hero. He invented the cure for polio and saved so many lives. Thanks to Sabin as well. Both great jewish man who contributed to the survival of mankind.

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Kinda moronic to compare polio to the rona

THERE IS NO MATHEMATICS.

Back then dimes cost alot of money?

Universities in the 1950’s: “let’s cure a deadly virus and help everyone! Universities now: “the word ‘dude’ is gendered language and I’m literally triggered”

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Ayo these gonna tach us a lesson never to eat a bat lol Also I do take this seriously I just wanna make people feel better about this and that we can get through it and things happen and sometimes we can’t get rid of it but we can and I reap eat we can ALWAYS get through it

Wasnt FDR lucky to enjoy the lands of the indigenous peoples 😊 lucky lucky white man.

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l0l comparing covid to polio. what has politics become

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Vaccination!

Vaccines Work

… And how many kids have died from Covid? You’re comparing apples to oranges

Shame on you CBS for this PROPAGANDA!