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I too had the sugarcube polio vaccine. I had no idea what polio was but Mom told me that it was a bad disease that had left one of my uncles partially paralyzed
by doodlebugging 2y ago
I too had the sugarcube polio vaccine. I had no idea what polio was but Mom told me that it was a bad disease that had left one of my uncles partially paralyzed. He caught polio as a young teen and had a limp until he passed away at nearly 80. Another uncle ended up deaf in one ear from a childhood infection that I think was meningitis. It left him ineligible to serve during the Vietnam War with a couple of his brothers and cousins though he tried to join every branch.
- tialaramex 2y agoOral Polio Vaccine. It's actually both more effective and cheaper than the injected vaccine used today, as well as being attractive to children (well at least me) because it's in the form of a weird fluid dripped onto a sugar code - looks like it might turn you into a superhero. The reason we don't use OPV in the rich industrial countries any more is that we don't have Polio here, so the improved efficacy and lower price aren't a worthwhile trade for the small but real risk of it reverting in some patients and producing an outbreak of Polio in the residual unvaccinated population.