Boomers The First To Get the Point on Polio!

By Rick Chromey | April 26, 2021 |
Jonas Salk and Polio Vaccine

TweetShareShare Polio was a feared disease in the early and mid-1900s. The crippling disease had disabled Franklin D. Roosevelt in the 1930s. But, even more so, polio was epidemic among children (who saw the lion share of the cases). In 1952 there were 58,000 new cases of poliomyelitis (with 3000 deaths). The worst part was…

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