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To: CorporateStepsister

In early 1950’s I came down with spinal meningitis. The first thing I was tested for was polo. Once that came back they started testing me for other issues.

I was 6. My divorced mother was terrified at the possibility of her young son spending the rest of his life in an iron lung or as a cripple, like FDR.

When the polo vaccine came out a few years later I was among the first in my school to receive it. Mom said that the two days sweating out the medical test results four years earlier was enough terror for her.

IMHO there is no non-political reason for everyone not to receive the polo vaccine,


21 posted on 05/05/2014 7:51:34 PM PDT by Nip (BOHEICA and TANSTAAFL - both seem very appropriate today.)
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To: Nip
I, too am old enough to remember the days before the Salk vaccine.

I was born in Arkansas in 1948, when Polio was a scourge on humanity. It was a summertime disease, it proliferated in the heat. Surrounded by cousins on all sides, we visited rarely. The disease reached an uncle's house and killed one daughter and affected others less severely.

When the Salk vaccine arrived on scene, we were among the first to receive it. At first it was a series of three shots. There was no choice. If you have ever seen the death and destruction caused by this disease, you would kick down doors to get your children vaccinated.

Later, we were re-vaccinated with the oral vaccine. Don't know if it was necessary, but MY parents were taking no chances. Smart people.

39 posted on 05/06/2014 1:20:24 AM PDT by snowtigger
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