It was the summer of 1952 and our country was in the middle of its worst polio epidemic since 1916. Nearly 58,000 cases of polio were reported and more than 3,000 died. I was lucky.

" . . . Scientists usher in a new medical age with the monumental reports that prove the Salk vaccine against crippling polio to be a sensational success . . . "

PPS - Does it Matter What We Call it? A presentation by Marny K. Eulberg, MD for March of Dimes, Canada

Ina Pinkney was infected in 1944, during World War II, more than a decade before the Salk Vaccine became available, stemming the annual summer epidemics that paralyzed communities almost like it paralyzed children.