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Thanks for replying to my post.

Much as what I noted about the Asian flu, when I was a kid, I certainly heard a lot about what a scourge polio had been. Unlike you, I never was fortunate enough to get the Sabin vaccine — a lot of my earliest childhood memories involved getting stuck like a pin cushion on what seemed to be a regular basis.

There’s a fine book about those times titled: “Patenting the Sun: Polio and the Salk Vaccine” by Jane S. Smith (1990, Morrow). I read it not long after it was published, and it’s had an honored place on my shelf ever since, in the anticipation of reading it again someday. I should note that while it covers Jonas Salk and his work in great detail, it doesn’t devote many pages to the Sabin vaccine.