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18. My mother was a physical therapist and most of the kids she worked with had polio

Sat Jul 4, 2020, 07:56 PM

Jul 2020

Back in the 60's, you took the vaccine orally in a sugar cube.

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I had a talk with a more "mature friend" about the .."polio vaccine" [View all] Stuart G Jul 2020 OP

I definitely know someone who had polio. soothsayer Jul 2020 #1

My Mother couldn't get us down to the school fast enough! leftieNanner Jul 2020 #2

First grade agingdem Jul 2020 #7

I think it has a lot to do with the malaise Jul 2020 #3

Being 'mature' myself I vivicly remember Polio COLGATE4 Jul 2020 #4

My inlaws are in their eighties. Lars39 Jul 2020 #5

Jonas Salk also gave his vaccine for free Greybnk48 Jul 2020 #6

There are still some people like that. Stuart G Jul 2020 #8

University of Pittsburgh... Freedomofspeech Jul 2020 #13

My dad couldn't get me to my school fast enough for the vaccine. dmr Jul 2020 #9

Ex wife in Salk test group and then got polio unc70 Jul 2020 #11

We should also remember that his followers ThoughtCriminal Jul 2020 #12

I knew several kids MuseRider Jul 2020 #15

My mother got polio when I was a year old. PlanetBev Jul 2020 #21