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To: pocotrader who wrote (1427046)	12/2/2023 2:59:05 PM
From: Eric	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1573275

One of my best friends from high school got polio. His dad was in the U.S. Air Force and the family was stationed in Sevillel, Spain in the mid 1950's. Before they could get the vaccine he caught polio. He has scars on both legs from later surgery. Fortunately he is able to walk fine but one leg is almost an inch shorter than the other. Edit: The scary part is his polio could come back at any time! The vaccines can't protect you if you were previously exposed!

To: pocotrader who wrote (1427046)	12/2/2023 3:03:45 PM
From: Wharf Rat	2 Recommendations Recommended By Eric pocotrader Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1573275

U.S. Vaccine Hesitancy Is Nothing New. Here's How The Polio Vaccine Overcame It : Shots - Health News : NPR #FoxDidn'tExist MAY 3, 20219:00 AM ET By Susan Brink Enlarge this image Elvis Presley got his polio vaccination from Dr. Harold Fuerst and Dr. Leona Baumgartner at CBS' Studio 50 in New York City on Oct. 28, 1956. The chart-topping singer took part in a March of Dimes campaign to convince teens to get vaccinated. Seymour Wally/NY Daily News Archive via Getty Images The mass inoculation of millions of American children against polio in 1955, like the vaccinations of millions of American adults against COVID-19 in 2021, was a triumph of science. But the polio vaccine had overwhelming public acceptance, while stubborn pockets of vaccine hesitancy persist across the U.S. for the COVID-19 vaccine. Why the difference? One reason, historians say, is that in 1955, many Americans had an especially deep respect for science. "If you had to pick a moment as the high point of respect for scientific discovery, it would have been then," says David M. Oshinsky, a medical historian at New York University and the author of Polio: An American Story. "After World War II, you had antibiotics rolling off the production line for the first time. People believed infectious disease was [being] conquered. And then this amazing vaccine is announced. People couldn't get it fast enough."....