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Representatives from the Brown Daily Herald, the Yale Daily News, and the Daily Princetonian will also appear on the show, Vicker said...
...first sign that anything was wrong came when a six-year-old San Diego youngster, Lawrence Vicker, got home for lunch from Eugene Field School and complained that he did not feel like eating. What was more, he had a stiff neck. His mother took his temperature: 103°. Here were three symptoms of polio (although several other diseases cause similar symptoms). Yet Larry, like 26,000 other San Diego children, had been inoculated only five days earlier with the Salk vaccine...
What Went Wrong? On the day Larry Vicker was stricken, a 13-month-old boy in Pocatello, Idaho got sick too. He had been vaccinated eight days earlier. Also in Pocatello, Susan Pierce, seven, became ill with bulbar polio three days after her inoculation. Within two days she was dead. In Moscow, Idaho, another seven-year-old girl died. A rash of cases was reported, from Napa, Calif, to Chicago...
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