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Watch Online / A Paralyzing Fear: The Story of Polio in America (TV Movie 1998)
Desc: A Paralyzing Fear: The Story of Polio in America: Directed by Nina Gilden Seavey. With Olympia Dukakis. Few know the story of how polio came to America in 1916 and grew into the frightening epidemics of the 1940's and 50's when the diseases crippled tens of thousands of children every summer.