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SheilaT

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4. I know, I looked that up also,

Reply to valerief (Reply #3)

Tue Feb 23, 2016, 05:21 PM

Feb 2016

but by 1962 polio was so incredibly rare that new cases were fairly newsworthy. More to the point, 1962 was NOT "that quaint time of polio. . . ." Really, it wasn't.

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By 1962 polio SheilaT Feb 2016 #1

Ha! Yes, and the oral vaccine was in 1961. I remember a neighborhood kid with polio valerief Feb 2016 #2

Also, here are some stats on U.S. polio. valerief Feb 2016 #3

I know, I looked that up also, SheilaT Feb 2016 #4

People who got it before the vaccine still had it. nt valerief Feb 2016 #5

Well, they didn't exactly still have polio, but they had the residual effects of it. SheilaT Feb 2016 #6

You're being careless. Introduction of the vaccine didn't eradicate polio from people who had polio. valerief Feb 2016 #8

I know that. But polio wasn't in the public consciousness very much by then. SheilaT Feb 2016 #9

It was in our consciousness in our neighborhood in 1962. Polio water, remember? valerief Feb 2016 #10

Do you know for sure that picture was taken in 1962? SheilaT Feb 2016 #11

Here's something from the Chicago Tribune 1961 that might interest you. valerief Feb 2016 #7