Who remembers the polio pandemic of 1952? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_polio https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_polio I was born much later b

Who remembers the polio pandemic of 1952? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_polio https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_polio I was born much later but it was still around and it was common to know kids that could not walk. It was the time when a vaccine became mandatory in my country. What I didn't know back then was that there was a pandemic many years before. I thought that it was an illness like all the ones that children got and lived through, smallpox and more, except that this one was not around anymore. The difference for the young me was in the oral transmission of knowledge: for some reason I was told about the Spanish flu and not about polio.