FDR Probably Got Polio at a Boy Scout Jamboree
You learn something new every day, and today we learned how future president Franklin D. Roosevelt got polio at age 39. Or how he probably got it: from the Boy …..
Posts tagged: Jonas Salk
Jonas Salk and the Polio Vaccine: How He Solved the Mysterious Epidemic That Terrorized America
In the 20th-century, a virus terrorized Americans, and then medical science came up with a cure. Dr. Jonas Salk was the hero.
Pablo Picasso’s World War II Mistress Is Alive and Painting in New York City
François Gilot met the great painter when she was 21 and he was 61, and the pair spent the next 10 years loving, wrangling, reproducing and painting.