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Polio shots launched era of vaccines
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| Contributor | Thomas Walker |
| Last Edited | Thomas Walker Apr 11, 2005 10:05pm |
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| Category | General |
| Media | TV News - CNN |
| News Date | Tuesday, April 12, 2005 04:00:00 AM UTC0:0 |
| Description | (AP) -- Dan Wilson remembers being a frightened 5-year-old, hearing grown-ups talking about tests as he lay on a daybed in the screened porch of his central Wisconsin home in 1955.
"One of the tests was whether you could lift your head off the bed," he said. "I remember not being able to do that, and wondering what that meant."
It meant polio, one of the most feared diseases of all time. The viral illness paralyzed tens of thousands of children in the United States and half a million worldwide each year.
Wilson was among the last Americans stricken. On April 12, 1955, scientists announced they had a successful vaccine.
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