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61. I remember taking it on a sugar lump...

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Wed Feb 4, 2015, 07:32 AM

Feb 2015

I think it was required for travel. I had it the first time as a baby, and don't remember it.

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Anyone else old enough to remember standing in line for your polio shots [View all] Peacetrain Feb 2015 OP

I remember, along with the big honking scab and scar notadmblnd Feb 2015 #1

That sounds like the smallpox vaccination. 3catwoman3 Feb 2015 #10

Yeah, I had the smallpox one. cwydro Feb 2015 #12

maybe, but I don't remember ever getting any sugar cube notadmblnd Feb 2015 #16

I got the shots.. sugar cubes cames later Peacetrain Feb 2015 #19

It was a shot, then a sugar cube, and later some sort of gel. n/t winter is coming Feb 2015 #22

That's what I remember Sanity Claws Feb 2015 #27

My polio vaccine was on a sugar cube. napi21 Feb 2015 #50

No I was pre-vaccine, but remember classmates who survived but Cleita Feb 2015 #2

I think it was third grade for me too. haikugal Feb 2015 #3

I got my shot while it was still in the trial stage, Blue_In_AK Feb 2015 #4

And sugar cubes. madamesilverspurs Feb 2015 #5

Yep. I remember standing in line for our sugar cubes. Luminous Animal Feb 2015 #25

My Mom was from Australia.. haikugal Feb 2015 #56

Those smallpox scars are a generational marker now. Several years ago I was Exhibit A ... Hekate Feb 2015 #36

The asshats in the U.S. who don't vaccinate can't cause an epidemic without help. Gormy Cuss Feb 2015 #6

The issue with the asshats in the U.S. who don't vaccinate is not an epidemic. MohRokTah Feb 2015 #43

And again, if the foreign transmission risk were eliminated it would be a non-issue. Gormy Cuss Feb 2015 #70

Concentrating on asshats in the US and making it mandatory they vaccinate their children eliminates MohRokTah Feb 2015 #72

What's idiotic is pretending that a focus on American anti-vaxxers will cure the problem/ Gormy Cuss Feb 2015 #85

If the US falls back to endemic status, decades of work towards eradication are wiped out. MohRokTah Feb 2015 #86

I had the sugar cube when I was really young, maybe before 6 years? KatyaR Feb 2015 #7

Sugar cube, handed to us in one of those fluted paper cups. Demit Feb 2015 #8

I really don't remember nitpicker Feb 2015 #66

We got the polio vaccine in sugar cubes. cwydro Feb 2015 #9

Yeah, I'm one of the "sugar cube" generation too. Hell I loved it! Rowdyboy Feb 2015 #39

I know, can you imagine? cwydro Feb 2015 #40

As a young boy I had a VERY sweet tooth. The sugar cubes "vanished" in nothing flat! Rowdyboy Feb 2015 #42

Ha! I did like the Pixie Stix. cwydro Feb 2015 #44

One of my favorites! Also Sweet Tarts.... Rowdyboy Feb 2015 #46

Loved sweet tarts! cwydro Feb 2015 #47

Anyone remember haikugal Feb 2015 #57

Yes, today it would be a high fructose corn syrup cube! Phentex Feb 2015 #77

Yup, I got the sugar cube too. HappyMe Feb 2015 #64

This should blow up to over 300 replies WhaTHellsgoingonhere Feb 2015 #11

I distinctly remember... 3catwoman3 Feb 2015 #13

Yes. Stood in line for shots Kingofalldems Feb 2015 #14

I remember standing in line for the sugar cubes. NOLALady Feb 2015 #15

Yup. Shots. 1957 or 58. MineralMan Feb 2015 #17

Me, too. But the doctor came to the house. displacedtexan Feb 2015 #20

We drove to the county health building in '57 or '58, too, twenty miles away Brother Buzz Feb 2015 #45

Sugar cubes at school. nt FLyellowdog Feb 2015 #18

Me too. cwydro Feb 2015 #48

Same here. blue neen Feb 2015 #54

I remember going to the armory in Memphis. Laffy Kat Feb 2015 #21

I remember it well........ truegrit44 Feb 2015 #23

No. Oral had just come out, so we got sugar cubes Panich52 Feb 2015 #24

Polio = sugar cube. Smallpox = needle scratch. Raster Feb 2015 #26

The first Salk vaccine was an injection. longship Feb 2015 #59

Absolutely and the kids screaming getting injections. gordianot Feb 2015 #28

We had an outbreak of polio at the little lake Peacetrain Feb 2015 #81

Sugar cube when I was in 1st grade. My father-in-law contracted LibDemAlways Feb 2015 #29

I was born in 1964 PasadenaTrudy Feb 2015 #30

Yes, I do and was glad to get the polio vaccination csziggy Feb 2015 #31

I got a sugar cube Kalidurga Feb 2015 #32

Yes, in the 1950's. we were bused to the Health Dept. for the shots dem in texas Feb 2015 #33

Absolutely. Clinic was held at elementary school in the evening & every parent in town was there... Hekate Feb 2015 #34

Lots of people pipi_k Feb 2015 #35

I remember first the sugar cube and thought hey this ain't so bad newfie11 Feb 2015 #37

Sugar cubes rusty fender Feb 2015 #38

Sugar cubes in flimsy cupcake liners. And felt Euphoria Feb 2015 #41

Stood in line for sugar cubes at BOSCO's, across the street from the very first Albertson's store. Major Hogwash Feb 2015 #49

I don't remember what they pricked/fuel injected me for Art_from_Ark Feb 2015 #51

Sandoz sugar cubes olddots Feb 2015 #52

I remember standing in line in a school gym.... prairierose Feb 2015 #53

in the gym MFM008 Feb 2015 #55

Stood in line at the elementary school gym with my brother. ladyVet Feb 2015 #58

kindergarten Panama, New York 1959-1960 with a big glass needle - I remember passing out Douglas Carpenter Feb 2015 #60

I can still see three kids ahead of me Peacetrain Feb 2015 #83

I remember taking it on a sugar lump... LeftishBrit Feb 2015 #61

Yep Hobo Feb 2015 #62

Yes - in P.S. 56 kindergarten LiberalElite Feb 2015 #63

Raising Hand! ProfessorGAC Feb 2015 #65

Me...first grade, I believe deutsey Feb 2015 #67

Remember it? Hell, I got my picture in the paper and still have it. Scuba Feb 2015 #68

Stood in Line itcfish Feb 2015 #69

I remember standing in line for shots and sugar cubes. Paladin Feb 2015 #71

We got them in the gymnaisium of our school. Polio had killed and maimed a fair share of children jwirr Feb 2015 #73

Sugar cubes, not shots shanti Feb 2015 #74

Standing in Line RobinA Feb 2015 #75

Polio vaccine was on the sugar cube..... love_me_some_pickles Feb 2015 #76

Not in the beginning of the vaccine campaign,,not until the 1960's Peacetrain Feb 2015 #80

Glafd I got the "cube" !! love_me_some_pickles Feb 2015 #82

I am glad you did too!! Peacetrain Feb 2015 #84

Stood in line at school for the sugar cube. sarge43 Feb 2015 #78

Sugar cubes, March of Dimes to Sousa tunes Lifelong Protester Feb 2015 #79

Salk Polio shots GreyGhost47 Jul 2015 #87