Meeting: Polio Survivor

James Lewis - 

The Polio Virus has been on our planet for at least 4,000 years. Killing, crippling children and adults all of this time. President Franklin D. Roosevelt was the first President of the United States was the first president who was suffering from the effects of Polio which he came down with in 1921, he was only 39 years of age. his legs were paralized. Under his leadership it started a campaign called the March of Dimes. Mothers would walk the neighborhoods collecting dimes for polio.

As with COVID-19 there was no vaccine, but that changed by two wonderful doctors, both came up with the polio vaccine, 4 years apart, but both have changed the world when it comes to polio eradication. My program will address "Life After Polio, Past, Present and Future"

I look forward to speaking to your Rotary Club, as a Polio survivor, it is an honor and a privilage.