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50,000 people died of polio.
250,000 people have died from Polio
250,000 people have died from Polio
Wilma Rudolph was born on June 23rd 1940 and died November 12th 1994 and Died of brain cancer. When she was younger she was dianosed with polio!
There isn't an exact number but about 1,500 people were killed at Auschwitz in 1940.
No. Frank Delano Roosevelt did although the US people did not realise he was paralysed from the waist down. He was never photographed in a wheelchair. He died in office during WW2. Truman then became president.
Although it does not receive much attention today, the most well-known epidemic of the 1950s was Polio. It affected many people as it swept across America. The polio epidemic reached its peak in the 1950s. The cases of Paralytic Polio went from 33,000 in 1950 to 59,000 in 1952. In 1950, 34,000 people died of tuberculosis, and in 1957, 62,000 people died from influenza.
At itâ??s time (prior to 1955), Polio was a major childhood disease and a major killer and crippler of young people. In 1950 alone ,3,145 deaths were reported with more than 57,628 cases reported. Although the virus had been extant for millennia, it only reached epidemic stages in the 20th century.
During the holocaust over 6 million Jews died. 6 million others died as well. gypsies, homosexuals, blacks and people harboring Jews were amongst that other 6 million
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There are a great many people that died in 1940. There were millions of people who died all around the world.