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Polio in the news. \u00a0This month’s Scientific American has coverage on the bid to eliminate polio. \u00a0That this can be a serious discussion represents a literally unbelievable leap from 1949 when I had polio to now.<\/p>\n
(I was a March of Dimes baby. \u00a0March, 1950, I think.)<\/p>\n
Polio before Salk and Sabin created even more generalized fear than H.I.V. \u00a0It devastated millions. \u00a0Some of us, like me, had it, recovered and moved on. \u00a0Others still wear a brace, have a withered limb, a curved spine.<\/p>\n
I’m left with the fading memories of a forgotten terror, a time when a child’s chill could be the precursor to paralysis. \u00a0As it was in my case.<\/p>\n
It’s strange to have been a victim of a plague most don’t even know ever happened. \u00a0Think of those high school seniors I toured last week who were born in 1994. \u00a01949 was 45 years before they were born. \u00a0When I turned 18 in 1965 45 years before was 1920. \u00a0And 45 years back from my birth date of 1947 was 1902. \u00a0It’s as if I had the Spanish flu during the great epidemic and survived.<\/p>\n
A miracle, really.<\/p>\n
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