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- BFI identifier596522
- Date2000-09-21 (Television)
- Production countryUnited Kingdom
- Production company
- SynopsisFor the greater part of the twentieth century, polio spread panic throughout the western world and caused paralysis in its victims, who were encased in iron lungs and fitted with callipers to support their weakened limbs. The story of these years is explored through the memories of patients, medical staff and policy makers, and asks whether or not the government was too cautious in its introduction of the polio vaccine. The vaccine had been discovered in 1954, and was enthusiastically welcomed in the US, but in Britain the authorities hesitated in establishing a universal immunisation programme. (NFA Catalogue)
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Title
Children of the Iron Lung (Original)
Category
Non Fiction- Secret History
Series Work - 779868
United Kingdom - TV - Non Fiction
- +Children of the Iron Lung
Work - 596522 - 2000-09-21 (Television)
United Kingdom - TV - Non Fiction
- +Children of the Iron Lung
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