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Unprotected People Stories: Polio |
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Real-life accounts of people who have suffered or died from vaccine-preventable diseases |
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AGE |
TITLE |
SUMMARY |
PUBLISHED |
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HTML
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6 yrs. |
"Polio Survivor Recalls Tragic Loss of Twin and Classmates" |
Story #105: Janice Flood Nichols, author of "Twin Voices:
A Memoir of Polio, the Forgotten Killer," was diagnosed
with polio as a child, as was her twin brother. Her twin
brother was lost to the disease, but Janice survived and
became one of the polio pioneers who were given the Salk
vaccine in 1954. |
5/9/13 |
| HTML
PDF |
22 yrs. |
"Unvaccinated U.S. adult traveling
abroad contracts vaccine-associated paralytic polio through contact with a child
vaccinated with OPV" |
Story #82: An Arizona woman
contracted paralytic polio while traveling in Central and South American via
contact with a child recently vaccinated with OPV. |
2/6/06 |
| HTML
PDF |
8 yrs. |
"Polio victim entreats parents to
say "yes" to vaccines" |
Story #28: Laura Lake recalls the
fear and loneliness she felt when hospitalized for polio at age eight. |
3/31/00 |
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PDF |
3 yrs. |
"I awoke one morning unable to walk" |
Story #5: Sharon Karber, a nurse
working in public health, writes about her polio experience as a 3-year-old
child in 1953. |
11/9/98 |
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on April 29, 2020. |
| This page was reviewed
on April 29, 2020. |
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