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Poultney Rotarian Bill gave a World Polio Day presentation on his diagnosis of polio in the early summer of 1943. Bill 's family lived 9 miles north of Pittsburgh, PA. and his doctor for his 15 months of treatment (in isolation) was Dr. Jessie Wright. Dr. Wright would work with Dr. Salk and team.
Information on Dr. Jessie Wright
See page 110. Part of Bill's treatment was by using the Kenny Method. |
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How A Pittsburgh-Made Polio Vaccine Helped Beat A Disease That Terrified A Nation
By MARGARET J. KRAUSS • APR 17, 2015 |
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Polio is caused by a virus that lives in the throat and intestine. It attacks the nervous system and can result in paralysis. Children are most at risk. Throughout the 1940s and 1950s, prevalence of the disease increased.
People were so afraid of their kids getting polio during the summertime, they wouldn’t let them go to swimming pools,”, trying to explain how polio affected society in those years. They wouldn’t let them go to movies, they tried to keep them away from other kids. People were hysterically afraid of it.
Dr. Julius Youngner
People were so afraid of their kids getting polio during the summertime, they wouldn’t let them go to swimming pools,”, trying to explain how polio affected society in those years. They wouldn’t let them go to movies, they tried to keep them away from other kids. People were hysterically afraid of it.
Dr. Julius Youngner
Jim Ferguson ~ Rotary Club of Bluefield, West VirginiaI joined Rotary when I found out about their work to eradicate polio, because I thought it would be a way to make my mother proud.
See information on Jim Ferguson in the November 2019 issue of The Rotarian. See THIRD Profile in the section. |
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An undated photo of young John Seccafico (right) with his dad Jim.
Courtesy of the Wytheville Enterprise
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Jim Ferguson was Chairman of the District 7550 (West Virginia) PolioPlus/Eradication effort for about 5 years. He is now Immediate Past DG of that District.
------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- In 1950, summer blew into Wythe County like a furnace blast. Motel owners looked forward to their seasonal boom. The young town manager worked on plans for a sewage treatment plant. A doctor settled into his father's practice. Children dreamed about swimming and swinging and climbing trees. In the country, a farmer lived his sixth year in an iron lung, a little-known survivor of the county's most recent - and fairly mild - polio outbreak. The Wytheville Statesmen second baseman, 21-year-old Jim Seccafico from Jersey City, started what would become the final season of his career. He was playing a game in North Carolina when his wife took their 1-year-old son, Johnny, to the doctor to check a stiff neck, sniffle and fever. Within hours, an ambulance was racing through the late June night, 80 miles to Roanoke and the nearest hospital equipped to handle polio. Fighting polio | From 1950 Virginia to 2013 India By AMY JETER THE VIRGINIAN-PILOT | JUL 21, 2013 https://www.pilotonline.com/news/health/article_a9566861-da50-5916-8dfe-c520ea49a91f.html |
Paralyzed since age 2, influential social worker John Seccafico died in April 2019 at 70. It was big news in a small Virginia town that never forgot him. Read More
First Polio Epidemic in United States Hits Rutland County Vermont in 1894 |
Former Ira Resident Survivor of 1894 Polio Outbreak
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Dr. Charles S. Caverly, authored report(s) on polio outbreak of 1894 and others that followed. In 1894, 18 died within a 4 day period.
His report is entitled "Infantile Paralysis in Vermont 1894 - 1922".
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Vermont Marble Company Monument for the March of Dimes dedicated on January 4, 1956 on Mt. Mansfield. Ceremony presented on the TODAY Show.
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