In 1938, polio’s most famous victim, President Franklin Delano Roosevelt, founded the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis (NFIP) to raise funding to specifically aid in the treatment and cure of polio.

2016年12月20日 · ffiliated polio care and research programs. This article, based on archives from Warm Springs, the Roosevelt Papers in Hyde Park, the Harvard Infantile Paralysis Commission, the NFIP’s Board of Trustee records, and Boston Children’s Hos-pital, along with an analysis of the medical literature related to Roosevelt’s polio efforts, aims to ...

2013年1月1日 · The NFIP research program became renowned for its basic and clinical research that led to the development of the polio vaccine. Its national support of training and rehabilitation services made medical rehabilitation a highly visible and respected aspect of health programs.

Polio is a highly contagious infectious disease caused by a virus that invades the nervous system. Poliovirus spreads through contact with the stool (feces) of an infected person or droplets from a sneeze or cough.

These efforts evolved into the National Foundation of Infantile Research (NFIP) in 1938. This foundation (later renamed the March of Dimes) became a national grassroots organization devoted to raising money to fund the care of polio victims and research for a cure.

Across the United States, 623 972 schoolchildren were injected with vaccine or placebo, and more than a million others participated as “observed” controls. The results, announced in 1955, showed good statistical evidence that Jonas Salk’s killed virus preparation was 80-90% effective in preventing paralytic poliomyelitis. 1.

The National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis (NFIP), the March of Dimes, and the Georgia Warm Springs Resort were reflections of Franklin D. Roosevelt's (FDR) complicated and personal relationship with polio. Between 1934 and 1957, significant advances were made in the care of polio survivors, an …

Through the use of long-term, substantive grants awarded to eminent researchers and institutions, the NFIP insured the continuity of polio research. By 1948 a series of

The National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis (NFIP) - the nation's large and powerful polio-fighting philan-thropy - was "rushing three specially equipped trucks and three pumps to the Rockford area" to coat the city with DDT, the new war-developed pesticide.

Reports, memoranda, correspondence, and printed matter relating to the production and distribution of the Salk polio vaccine. Includes surveillance reports, state vaccination activities, and correspondence with the National Foundation.