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Some old pictures of what it looked like in hospitals: https://www.google.com/search?source=univ&tbm=isch&q=images+from+polio+hospital&hl=en https://www.google.

• brippalcharrid 4y ago
  At least some of the images that come up in that Google Images search are from the Cutter Incident, which was caused by a Polio vaccine, much like the current outbreaks that we're seeing, so that probably wasn't the best example.
  • curtisf 4y ago
    It's worth noting that the Cutter incident involved contaminated/improperly produced inactivated-virus vaccines. The article implicates live virus vaccines, not inactivated virus vaccines, in periodic outbreaks primarily outside the US and Europe (which do not use live-virus polio vaccines)
• hilbert42 4y ago
  Whilst the attenuated polio virus vaccine may carry a tiny risk it cannot be reasonably compared with the dangers of not being vaccinated. Anti-vaxxers and those who've not gotten around to being vaccinated should look very carefully at those photos especially the one with the rows of poor kids in iron lungs, it's so tragic I want to cry. I know, I lived through that 1950s/60s polio epidemic and whilst I was lucky and didn't get polio other kids at my school did. One died and another in my class ended up not being able to walk without calipers on his legs. It was terrible. I've since had both the Salk and Sabin vaccines, back then when the vaccines finally arrived everyone rushed to them (despite a few tragic mishaps with a bad batch of early vaccine). At that time the term 'anti-vaxxer' didn't exist - as the concept was almost inconceivable.