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We beat Polio!

Everyone rolled up their sleeves and beat Polio for the good of mankind in 1954!
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Elessar · 26-30, M
Well yeah, thankfully we didn't have Facebook degrees back then. Nowadays it would be pretty much impossible.
OldBrit · 61-69, M
I had my polio vaccine in the 60s which meant in the UK you got it on a sugar cube. Possibly not good for the teeth but...
hippyjoe1955 · 70-79, M
I knew a lot of people who had it and barely survived. I believe Allan Alda from MASH fame is a polio survivor. I was vaccinated as a child for that and smallpox. Both vaccines worked. Something that can not be said of the coved vaxes that will be shown to kill more people than they protect.
JohnRing · 56-60, M
Absolutely not true. You’re either a bold faced liar or incredibly gullible and naive. @hippyjoe1955
MarineBob · 56-60, M
@hippyjoe1955 indemnify the manufacturers from being responsible and letting them make millions
ChipmunkErnie · 70-79, M
Yup, I remember lining up for the vaccine as a little kid.
OldBrit · 61-69, M
BTW it isn't actually eliminated yet. It still is endemic in some parts of Asia today
LunarOrbit · 56-60, M
My mom had polio. Glad they got rid of that disease.
SW-User
Polio wasn't wiped out until 1979.. 24 years after the vaccine was first introduced..

It took two and a half years for the final vaccine to be fully developed..
RedBaron · M
Indeed! And I knew someone born prior to that who had it.
James231 · 26-30, M
no there is quite a lot of it in some countries
Graylight · 51-55, F
@James231 The annual number of wild poliovirus cases has declined by more than 99.9% worldwide from an estimated 350,000 in 1988 when the Global Polio Eradication Initiative was launched.

Five out of six World Health Organization regions are now certified wild poliovirus free—the African Region, the Americas, Europe, South East Asia and the Western Pacific.

Of the three serotypes of wild poliovirus, type 2 was certified as eradicated in 2015 and type 3 was certified as eradicated in 2018.
https://www.cdc.gov/polio/progress/index.htm

There were 140 reported cases of wild poliovirus (WPV) in 2020. Polio remains endemic in only two countries.
https://www.kff.org/global-health-policy/fact-sheet/the-u-s-government-and-global-polio-efforts/
MarineBob · 56-60, M
They also ran a testing phase
JohnRing · 56-60, M
They tested it on 1.8 million people. How many more people need to take it? @MarineBob
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curiosi · 61-69, F
We didn't beat polio, they renamed it.
Graylight · 51-55, F
Yeah...I'm still waiting for the science on this one. They need to do more research before they stick whatever they want into me just so I can keep walking. Plus, I heard it makes metal stick to you - just look at all that hardware stuck to kids' legs.

Sounds kinda stupid through the lens of history, no?
Lilnonames · F
Only thing is polio wasnt sent out like China did covid as germ warfare

 
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