A horror movie could not be more dramatic: A disease seeks out mainly children and terrorizes them and their parents each summer. They no longer go to pools or movie theaters for fear they might contract the potentially fatal disease that often cripples its victims. A beloved, polio-afflicted U.S. President inspires the country's men, women, and children to send their dimes to fund research - some of which would go to an ambitious, but unknown 33-year-old scientist at the University of Pittsburgh who would change the course of medical history.

Check out our viral video contest, helping to connect the development of the Salk vaccine to present day efforts by Rotary International and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to make the world polio free.