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In reply to the discussion: On this day, April 13, 1955, this was the main headline on the New York Times: [View all]rurallib
(62,371 posts)26. O what a feeling! I was 5 so remember little except
for the great relief my parents talked about for a long time not to have to worry about polio. I was the 3rd of 3 boys.
I do remember getting my head whacked trying to drink out of a drinking fountain one day. The real possibility that I would take that drink and get polio just scared my mother to death, so she did the first thing she could think of to stop me - WHACK!
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On this day, April 13, 1955, this was the main headline on the New York Times: [View all]
mahatmakanejeeves
Apr 2021
OP
I was in the 3rd grade. The County Health Dept. set up a vaccination site at the largest
Arkansas Granny
Apr 2021
#3
That sounds more like a smallpox vaccination, which features blisters. No scarring from the Salk
diane in sf
Apr 2021
#15
Had any other Republucan defeated the denier of truth, we'd be in far better shape today.
SleeplessinSoCal
Apr 2021
#19
I think most of us who got the Salk shots, got the sugar cube, as well, later.
maddiemom
Apr 2021
#21
I was in elementary school in NYC at that time. All students were required to get....
George II
Apr 2021
#16