The video is about the polio disease and the fact that in 1921 the polio strike President Franklin Delano Roosevelt (FDR) at 39 years of age. The polio is also known as the infantile paralysis. The disease was highly contagious and hit Whyteville, Virginia in the summer of 1950 more than any other city in the country. People were hopeless, stores and theaters were closed and people isolated themselves to avoid the spreading of the disease. The disease usually strike children during the summer months. The disease affect the central nervous system responsible for the functioning of the muscles. The symptoms start with a mild headache, then nausea to muscle weakness, paralysis and even death. The paralytic effect last for life. The fact that
