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There is a large outbreak of polio in the United States. Though the total number of affected individuals is unknown, over 9000 cases are reported in New York City alone. Attempts at controlling the disease largely involve the use of isolation and quarantine, neither of which is successful.
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At the age of 39 Franklin D. Roosevelt contracts polio during a vacation in Canada and is later left with severe paralysis.
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FDR was the first president to ever have to use a wheelchair in the white house. However he was able to sucessfully hide his disablity from the public.
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This fondation was how Jonas Salk and his team aqquired money in order to do their research and tests. This foundation is still around today.
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World War 2 ends. Large epidemics of polio in the U.S.occur immediatly after the war with an average of more than 20,000 casesa yearfrom 1945 to 1949.
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The first polio vaccine pioneered by Dr. Jonas Salk using killed polioviruses was licensed for public use.
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THe first reported case of paralytic polio in vaccinated people were eventually traced to vaccines produced by Cutter Labratories.
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Last case of polio is cured.
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Approximately 350,000 cases of polio still worldwide, the World Health Organization passes a resolution todiminish the disease by the year 2000.
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By this time there were only about 100,000 polio cases left. Most of these cases take place in Asia and Africa.
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From 2000 and beyond polio has become more rare however war, poverty, and natural disasters prevent the extinction of the disease.
