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2006-12-17 22:10:43 · 1 answers · asked by Taraneh 1 in Social Science Economics

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March of Dimes is the name of health charities in both the United States and Canada. In the United States the March of Dimes is a national voluntary health charity founded in 1938 by United States President Franklin Delano Roosevelt as the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis to defeat the epidemic disease polio, which killed or paralyzed thousands of Americans during the first half of the 20th century. Roosevelt himself was paralyzed with what at the time was believed to be polio, though it now seems this diagnosis was mistaken.

for more info go to this url:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/March_of_dimes

2006-12-17 22:19:35 · answer #1 · answered by Jonny 5 · 0 0

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