Polio was always secular in pain and communal in treatment

  Do   boond    jindgee  kee  ...  salute   to   Indian   govt   and  actor
Amitabh bacchan as an ambassador  for   such  a  big  cause   and   impact   is    Today    India   is   declared    Polio  free nation .80% of  the   world   is   polio   free   baring   three  asian  nations  having   maximum  polio  cases Afghanistan,  Pakistan and Nigeria.
Polio was associated with the iron lung, a large metal tank designed to help polio victims suffering from respiratory paralysis breathe.President Franklin Roosevelt was diagnosed with polio in 1921 at the age of 39 and was left paralyzed from the waist down and forced to use leg braces and a wheelchair for the rest of his life. In 1938, Roosevelt helped found the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis, later renamed the March of Dimes. The organization was responsible for funding much of the research concerning the disease, including the Salk vaccine trials.The man behind the original vaccine was New York-born physician and epidemiologist Jonas Salk (1914-95). Salk's work on an anti-influenza vaccine in the 1940s, while at the University of Michigan School of Public Health, led him, in 1952 at the University of Pittsburgh, to develop the inactivated polio vaccine (IPV), based on a killed-virus strain of the disease. The 1954 field trials that followed, the largest in U.S. history at the time, were led by Salk's former University of Michigan colleague, Dr. Thomas Francis, Jr.In the late 1950s, Polish-born physician and virologist Albert Sabin (1906-1993) tested an oral polio vaccine (OPV) he had created from a weakened live virus. The vaccine, easier to administer and cheaper to produce than Salk's, became available for use in America in the early 1960s and eventually replaced Salk's as the vaccine of choice in most countries.Today, polio has been eliminated throughout much of the world due to the vaccine ; however, there is still no cure for the disease and it persists in a small number of countries in Africa and Asia.  There   are   many   in   India    suffering  from    this  disease  and   cursing  there   fate  as   they   are    declared   handicap by  our   handicapped   governence.