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1. Although polio was the most feared disease of the 20th century, it was hardly the deadliest.
“Polio was never the raging epidemic portrayed in the media, not even at its height in the 1940s and 1950s,” writes David M.
Oshinsky in his Pulitzer Prize-winning book “Polio: An American Story.” During those decades, 10 times as many children died in accidents and three times as many succumbed to cancer.
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Oshinsky notes that polio inspired such fear because it struck without warning and researchers were unsure of how it spread from person to person. In the years following World War II, polls found the only thing Americans feared more than polio was nuclear war.
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Franklin D. Roosevelt proved instrumental in the vaccine’s development.
A year after his nomination as a Democratic vice presidential candidate, rising political star Franklin D. Roosevelt contracted polio while vacationing at his summer home on Campobello Island in 1921.
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