US history and polio

Egyptian Stele was found with pictures of the first Polio case between 1580 and 1350 B.C

Nov 27, 1350

1580 and 1350 B.C

Jacob Heine discovered Polio symptons and types

Nov 27, 1840

Jonas Salk was born in Russia (Jewish immigrant)

Nov 28, 1914

Large outbreak of POLIO in New York City

Nov 27, 1916

First Iron lung appeared

Nov 27, 1920

Prospect of a "cure" for POLIO (convalescent serum) DIDN'T WORK

Nov 27, 1920

Vice President Franklin Delano Roosevelt contracted polio

Nov 27, 1921

Roosevelt visited the waters of Warm Spring

Nov 27, 1924

Roosevelt tried everything to overcome his disibility

Roosevelt started the Warm Spring Foundation

Nov 27, 1926

Roosevelt was selected president of the United States

Nov 27, 1932

Sister Kenny returned to Australia were sje established her clinic

Nov 28, 1933

charitable balls about 6000 around the country

Nov 30, 1933

The National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis

Jan 30, 1937

Sister Elizabeth Kenny

Nov 28, 1940

she was fron Australia, her ideas was not to keep polo patient inmovil

Japan bombed Pear Harbor

Dec 7, 1941

and The United States entered in WW II

Slak and Francis worked in finding the vaccione for Flu

Nov 28, 1942

Slak and Francis worked in finding the vaccione for Flu

Nov 28, 1947

Salk was ready to tried his vaccine

Nov 28, 1950

that worked well in monkeys

Mothers' March on Polio

Nov 28, 1950

lo leave their porch lights on as a signal that they had a contribution waiting for the volunteers to danated money for polio

Salk announced thst there were just 3 polio viruses types

Nov 28, 1951

Salk tried the vaccion on himslef and friends and nobady got sick

May 23, 1952

Salk tried the vaccione on 45 kids at the D.T Watson Home for Crippled Children

Jun 12, 1952

58,000 cases of polio

Nov 28, 1952

Sabin was jealous of Salk (and wanted more research on Salk Polio vaccine)

Jan 24, 1953

Time magazine welcome the news of SALK vaccine

Feb 9, 1953

Sabin addressed the American Medical Aasociation that Salk vaccine was not safe to tested in large amount of people

Jun 28, 1953

Disneyland opening day

Jul 17, 1955

5,000 cases of polio with the vaccine

Nov 28, 1957

American exhibition in Moscow

Nov 28, 1959

3,000 cases of polio with the vacine

Nov 28, 1960

Salk vaccine worked Polio nearly dissappeared

he Worl Health Organization announced a campaing to elimated Polio around the Wrold

Nov 28, 1988

80 million chidren were immunised in China

Nov 28, 1995

he Worl Health Organization wanted to eliminate Polio by 2000

Nov 28, 2000