When I was a kid, there was just the DPT and smallpox vaccines. In 1954, the elementary schools had a voluntary vaccine for polio.
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I was born in 1959. Don’t know how old I was in this memory, but I recall being at the doctor’s office and given a sugar cube to eat. I think it was pink-tinted and remember being told it was so I wouldn’t get polio.
Same here. Little sugar cube.
I was born in 1959. Don’t know how old I was in this memory, but I recall being at the doctor’s office and given a sugar cube to eat. I think it was pink-tinted and remember being told it was so I wouldn’t get polio.
Same here I was born in 1958...
I was born in 1959. Don’t know how old I was in this memory, but I recall being at the doctor’s office and given a sugar cube to eat. I think it was pink-tinted and remember being told it was so I wouldn’t get polio.
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I am more than a decade older than you. For 1954 to 1958, the vaccinations were in the school auditorium. We had long lines of students winding down the hall ways. Students came out crying from the shot, holding ice cream bars.
I was at the end of the line-next to the door. I left ran across the street to my house and hid in the closet. Dad saw me go into the house, and ratted me out. They dragged me back to school.
It took 7 people to hold me down and take my sweater off. Next year we had a battle at home. Permission slips were not returned. Everyone else that took the vaccine got sick and threw up. Lucky me I avoided the contamination that they got.