Polio Breakthrough

de bene esse: literally, of well-being, morally acceptable but subject to future validation or exception

Almost every summer polio epidemics left a wake of paralysis and death as children struggled to walk or became trapped in iron lungs. Then, 58 years ago today, a scientist made a startling announcement: He had found a vaccine that would wipe the disease from the U.S. http://to.pbs.org/123mWQ5