Modern Marvels. Polio Vaccine
Description
In the 20th century, polio was one of the most dreaded childhood diseases, devastating its victims. Ingenuity, trial and error, even acts of scientific desperation would pave the way to one of the greatest breakthroughs in scientific history - a vaccine. Modern Marvels traces the technology that eradicated the health scourge of the century.
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45 min
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Date of Publication
[2011], c1997
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Films on Demand
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