A look back at mass polio vaccinations of '50s, '60s

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The development of the COVID-19 vaccine has caused us to look back to the Spanish Flu of 1918. But a more recent medical condition led to the development of another vaccine to address another illness, the polio vaccine of the 1950s. Anyone older than the age of 60 probably remembers the various polio vaccines administered […]

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