Lindy Washburn North Jersey Record Published 6:43 AM EDT Apr 26, 2019 There was a time when the arrival of summer sparked dread in American parents, when danger lurked in swimming pools and movie theaters, and when tens of thousands of children developed the weakness and paralysis of polio. It was a time when hospitals set up rows of iron lungs to help stricken children breathe, when doctors fitted children with crutches and leg braces to help them walk, and when hundreds died. That was the polio epidemic. But that was long ago, before what seemed like a miracle banished polio — or “infantile paralysis” — from the country. The miracle was a vaccine, and its advent in 1955 made its developer, Jonas Salk, a national hero. Today, polio is a distant memory — perhaps too distant for those who say vaccinations are unsafe and that the risk of vaccination is not worth the protection it confers. But polio is not the only curse to have been banished by a vaccine. Smallpox also has been eradicated — the first disease eliminated worldwide through vaccination efforts. Measles, too, could have gone the way of polio and smallpox. But this year its spread among pockets of under-vaccinated people around the United States has led to the highest number of… Read full this story
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