NA FEA MED US Polio Vaccine
NA FEA MED US Polio Vaccine
MARILYNN MARCHIONE, AP Medical Writer
4/10/2005
AP Worldstream
MARILYNN MARCHIONE, AP Medical Writer
AP Worldstream
04-10-2005
Dateline: MILWAUKEE
Dan Wilson remembers being a frightened 5-year-old, hearing grown-ups talking about tests as he lay on a daybed in the screened porch of his central Wisconsin home in 1955.
"One of the tests was whether you could lift your head off the bed," he said. "I remember not being able to do that, and wondering what that meant."
It meant polio, one of the most feared diseases of all time. The viral illness paralyzed tens of thousands of children in the United States and half a million worldwide each year.
Wilson was among ...
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