Why is the March of Dimes called the March of Dimes?
The fundraising efforts of the March of Dimes helped fund the initial research into preventing and treating polio.
The fundraising efforts of the March of Dimes helped fund the initial research into preventing and treating polio.
The first polio vaccines were licensed in the 1950s and ’60s by Jonas Salk and Albert Sabin and have helped us get close to eradicating polio.
Wild polio is once again causing more paralysis than mutant strains of polio vaccine.
Vaccines work well and have helped control, eliminate, and in the case of smallpox, eradicate diseases.