Interim Report

Duration: 22

Creator: National Fdn Infantile Paralysis

Format: 16mm

Color: B&W

Sound: sound

Description: Traces the history of the development of a polio vaccine beginning with the first outbreak of polio on the United States in 1894 to the proof of the Salk vaccine's effectiveness in 1955. Reviews President Roosevelt's struggle with the disease, method of treatment used at that time, and the establishment of the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis. Follows the steps leading to the salk vaccine including the discovery of the three virus strains, the growing of live virus in the laboratory, the finding of the virus in the bloodstream, and the 1954 field trials of the vaccine.

Complete Record: Traces the history of the development of a polio vaccine beginning with the first outbreak of polio on the United States in 1894 to the proof of the Salk vaccine's effectiveness in 1955. Reviews President Roosevelt's struggle with the disease, method of treatment used at that time, and the establishment of the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis. Follows the steps leading to the salk vaccine including the discovery of the three virus strains, the growing of live virus in the laboratory, the finding of the virus in the bloodstream, and the 1954 field trials of the vaccine., NOTE: Two (or more) records have been merged together to create this data.