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

Tue Feb 23, 2016, 05:36 PM

Feb 2016

It really wasn't. The Salk vaccine had been incredibly effective, if not 100%, and I think the problem with the rise in cases in the late 50's had to do with bad batches, but I might be wrong. In any event, the business about pools shutting down for fear of it had entirely disappeared by then.

I KNOW that people who'd had polio still had the withered muscles or whatever, that never went away. But the very rapid change from it being something that hung over everything to being essentially invisible had occurred by then.

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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