Presents a comprehensive survey of the polio epidemic of the 1950s and the discovery of the Salk and Sabin vaccines, and describes the devastating results of the disease, methods of treatment, fund-raising efforts, and more.
Documents the polio terror in the early 1950s and the competitive race to create a vaccine and a cure. Explores whether polio was a real or media-induced epidemic. Details the competition between Jonas Salk and Albert Sabin to find a cure, and explains how the government conducted the largest public-health experiment involving a million school children when the Salk vaccine was created. Describes the creation of a national foundation to raise money for research and rehabilitation.
