India and the U.S.:Conquering Polio 2000
Distributed by Chip Taylor Communications, 2 East View Drive, Derry, NH 03038-4812; 800-876-CHIP (2447)
Produced by KR Productions
Director n/a
VHS, color, 45 min.
Jr. High - Adult
Health Sciences, Sociology
Date Entered: 11/09/2018
Reviewed by Stephen Hupp, Swedenborg Memorial Library, Urbana UniversityBefore the development of the polio vaccine in the 1950s, the disease was feared through out the United States and the rest of the world. Even after the Salk and Sabin treatments largely ended polio in America, it remanded a threat in the Third World. India and the U.S.: Conquering Polio documents efforts in India to destroy polio through single day mass immunizations, along with presenting problems encountered by American polio suffers with dealing with side effects caused by polio.
The primary focus of the video is efforts during the late 1990s to stop polio in India. On one selected day, officials make an effort to administer an oral vaccine to all children throughout the country. The Rotary International also supports this National Immunization Day. Since the 1970s, this voluntary organization raised money and provided personal needed to administer the treatment through India.
In addition, the film also covers problems facing individuals with polio in both India and the United States. In India, teams or orthopedic surgeons attempt to correct debilitating conditions through mass operations. American polio suffers face shoulder problems created through compensating for disabled legs.
The film presents a hopeful picture of the efforts to end a feared disease as well as the problems faced by those people afflicted with polio. This video is recommended for all collections emphasizing medicine and social problems.