43. Chicken Pox vaccine is relatively recent -- 1995
I remember it was one of the childhood diseases EVERYONE got -- or almost. Itchy, itchy, itchy. Along with measles, it was just something we regarded as normal.
But we also grew up when polio was "normal" ... and I remember when the polio vaccine was invented in 1955. I was 12 and even kids my age were agog with it. Salk was a hero. It's hard to convey to younger folks just how ever-present the summertime fear of polio was. It was the monster under the bed ... but it was real.
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