A newly discovered film shows Franklin D. Roosevelt, who had polio, walking(washingtonpost.com)
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A newly discovered film shows Franklin D. Roosevelt, who had polio, walking
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/retropolis/wp/2018/06/27/a-newly-discovered-film-shows-franklin-d-roosevelt-who-had-polio-walking/
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> . In 1949, a researcher named Fred R. Klenner claimed to have found that high doses of vitamin-C could ward off the virus.
This was referenced in an episode of the tv show House
> the mass global uptake afterwards have almost rendered the virus extinct.
This is one of the things India (and from what I've heard, Pakistan) did really well. Every year around vaccination time (there used to be two doses taken around a month apart) there used to be almost propaganda like mass advertisements, camps, etc. When I was a kid I knew of a handful of older people that had polio; a kid born today is unlikely to meet someone with polio. Unfortunately, a very small minority is trying to argue that polio vaccination is a conspiracy by [pharma companies | government | rich people] :(
This was referenced in an episode of the tv show House
> the mass global uptake afterwards have almost rendered the virus extinct.
This is one of the things India (and from what I've heard, Pakistan) did really well. Every year around vaccination time (there used to be two doses taken around a month apart) there used to be almost propaganda like mass advertisements, camps, etc. When I was a kid I knew of a handful of older people that had polio; a kid born today is unlikely to meet someone with polio. Unfortunately, a very small minority is trying to argue that polio vaccination is a conspiracy by [pharma companies | government | rich people] :(
Unfortunately, a very small minority is trying to argue that polio vaccination is a conspiracy by [pharma companies | government | rich people] :(
Not without some justification: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2011/jul/11/cia-fake-vacci...
This CIA-backed program should have been seen (and prosecuted) as a crime against humanity, but for some reason, it wasn't.
Not without some justification: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2011/jul/11/cia-fake-vacci...
This CIA-backed program should have been seen (and prosecuted) as a crime against humanity, but for some reason, it wasn't.
But the anti-vaccination movement is arguing that real vaccinations are a conspiracy - the post you linked is about CIA agents infiltrating a vaccination program in order to attempt to verify Bin Laden DNA in a local population.
I've read several articles about this incident and none of them claim the vaccines themselves were tampered with, or poisoned, so it seems neither the article or the operation described support the premise held by anti-vaxxers that vaccinations either don't work or are actively and intentionally harmful.
I've read several articles about this incident and none of them claim the vaccines themselves were tampered with, or poisoned, so it seems neither the article or the operation described support the premise held by anti-vaxxers that vaccinations either don't work or are actively and intentionally harmful.
The antivaccination weirdos never got to see my grandmother (in NZ, a western country) walk in a leg brace her entire life, they are dangerous, we don't shame them enough
Yeah, that seemed like an action with obvious and really unfortunate consequences.
I have encountered a few folks older than me whose bodies were unfortunately twisted by polio. It didn't stop them but it did present a significant and unfortunate impediment.
Vaccinate your children.
Vaccinate your children.
The anti-vaxxers are either completely oblivious to the treacherous possibility that was life before polio vaccine or willfully ignorant.
Either is dangerous for the body public.
Either is dangerous for the body public.
He was able walk for short distances, but only with difficulty and a lot of pain. He often used a cane to help him out.
Winston Churchill records seeing Roosevelt slowly walk over to greet him, and knew how difficult it was for Roosevelt to do that.
Winston Churchill records seeing Roosevelt slowly walk over to greet him, and knew how difficult it was for Roosevelt to do that.
That's what the article is about, and what the film shows. Apparently there wasn't this kind of footage before.
> Roosevelt was left permanently paralyzed from the waist down. He was diagnosed with poliomyelitis at the time, but his symptoms are more consistent with Guillain–Barré syndrome (GBS) – an autoimmune neuropathy which Roosevelt's doctors failed to consider as a diagnostic possibility.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franklin_D._Roosevelt%27s_pa...
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franklin_D._Roosevelt%27s_pa...
The footage was less surprising to me than the fact that Photographers and cameraman had the upmost respect and empathy back then to not video or photograph him walking or getting out of a car or such.
In this day n age there is absolutely 0 respect because negative news sells.
In this day n age there is absolutely 0 respect because negative news sells.
Ok, I have to ask, what kind of camera was that? Did we really have film cameras small enough that could be casually carried by tourists in 1935?
My guess would be a Kodak 16mm handheld. The Cine-Kodak Model B was introduced in 1923 and a few subsequent models had been released by 1935: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cine-Kodak
FDR often leaned on people's arms to get support so he could appear to be walking or standing. In this video he does it too.
If you saw Ken Burns' series on The Roosevelts, there was plenty of film of this.
FDR had developed a way of moving stiff legged in his braces. It was painful and difficult.
FDR had developed a way of moving stiff legged in his braces. It was painful and difficult.
Url changed from http://time.com/5325424/video-president-roosevelt-walking/, which points to this.
The Washington Post link is subscription-only at least for users in Europe, and the video itself is hosted on YouTube. It should probably be reverted to the original link
Wapo URL is completely paywalled outside of the US.
One of my uncles also had it and survived, but was crippled for the rest of his life. He was able to get around okay with braces and a cane until his mid-50s. And then the trauma from the disease finally caught up to him and he spent the rest of his life as a paraplegic with breathing troubles that finally killed him in his early 70s.
My father may have caught it, but was able to fight it off. He also has Guillain-Barré syndrome and attributes it to that period.
Medicine was so unable to cope with the volume and severity of the patients during the 30s and 40s that "alternative" remedies came into full fashion. In 1949, a researcher named Fred R. Klenner claimed to have found that high doses of vitamin-C could ward off the virus. As a result households stricken with polio often found themselves stuffed to the gills with donations of fruits, vegetables and strangely goats as it was believed that goat milk had high doses of the vitamin.
Salk's discovery of the vaccine, the trials around it and the mass global uptake afterwards have almost rendered the virus extinct. But it could almost never happen today.