4.26.17 In 1954, the polio vaccine trials involving 1.8 million children – the largest in U.S. history at that time – began in McLean, Virginia. President Franklin Roosevelt, who was diagnosed with polio at 39 years old, helped establish the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis. The organization – later renamed the March of Dimes – funded much of the polio research, including the vaccine trials.
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