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Reading about the threat of smallpox [TERRORISM, Oct. 29], I was reminded of the risk of polio in the 1950s and '60s. Surely one of the greatest humanitarian efforts of the U.S. government was providing, free of charge, the little sugar cube that contained the Sabin oral immunization for polio. I remember going with my family to the local school auditorium and waiting our turn. My daughter was not even a toddler then, but old enough to enjoy that lump of sugar. What a blessing it was! Now we are confronted with a danger greater than polio, frightening because...
...bankrolling college scholarships for minority students. But what really moves Stonesifer is when there's a sense that it all makes a difference. As she puts it, it's about "seeing mothers in the worst neighborhoods of India, with children on their hips, bringing them in for a polio vaccination." That's a blue-chip investment of a higher order. --By Adam Cohen
Currently required vaccinations, such as those against measles and polio, do prevent the further spread of the disease. Testing is currently underway in Britain on a meningitis vaccination that would also prevent individuals from spreading the disease...
...Every life needs a defining struggle - an identity earned the hard way. Theodore Roosevelt was America's most combative and convincing struggler - warrior, hunter, rancher, naturalist: a bracing prehistory for the White House. Franklin Roosevelt's defining struggle was polio. The affliction that cost him his legs made him fit in a greater...
DIED. TANAQUIL LE CLERCQ, 71, lithe-limbed ballerina who, while on tour in Copenhagen with husband George Balanchine in 1956, contracted polio, which left her paralyzed at 27 at the peak of her talent and fame; of pneumonia; in New York City. In an eerie foreshadow, Balanchine in 1944 had choreographed a ballet in which he cast himself as a character named Polio and his incomparably elegant muse Le Clercq as a victim who becomes paralyzed...