Word: polio
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...must, for the record, correct your description of me. I have been lame all my life and have not had polio; and I get about quite easily, without pain...
...Angeles, the Social Service Commission at first denied permission for the drive, then sheepishly reversed itself as the local polio epidemic worsened (see below...
...Syracuse, N.Y., the Post-Standard printed an angry editorial complaining that far more money is raised for polio than for cancer, heart disease or TB-which have far higher death rates. It quoted handy backyard statistics reporting fewer cases in upstate New York than in recent years, accused the foundation of being greedy and extravagant...
...Montgomery, Ala., civic officials refused permission for the drive, also pointed to a merciful decline in the local polio rate as compared with last year's severe epidemic...
...research. Though doctors still disagree on the value of gamma globulin, the foundation had to buy up most of the year's output and control its distribution, or haphazard use would have ruined the Salk vaccine test. Meanwhile, the foundation was reduced to asking hospitals to carry polio patients on credit...