Sad part now, is Polio is a viable and dangerous disease, because all of that who were immunized in the late 50's, and had kids,or not, passed the safety factor on... now, children have no immunity, because it has been bred out... and we have very little vaccine, but the gubmint is working to rectumfy that currently...
Let's not forget Albert Sabin, who alongside Salk, furthered this vaccine, and developed media to effectivly administer it orally to all of us kids... we first had the pincushion polio immunizations, and in later years, we got the sugar cubes, thanks to Sabin...most folks would never know who these doctors were, simply because of time... sad. I know because I was immunized, multiple times thru my youth.
kids will never know these things, and they would have to get the lowdown from their grandparents today.
http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polio_vaccineWeird as it sounds, my brother contracted polio, prior to my conception, and our Cleveland house had a quarentine sign posted on it , he pulled thru very well, healthy hungarian bloodlines, and never really suffered the debilitating effects many people in Cleveland had as a result of contracting the disease.
I think we should learn from this, and begin, and always continue, to produce and immunize current offspring, so this stuff never arrises again.
Semper fi
Don't ever forget smallpox, teburcoulosis, whooping cough, and many other seemingly extinct but devestating diseases, on a world scale, during their time of prevalence, they wiped out millions.... and we never had jetplanes, elevators, or huge public venues, which make this a spreadable and highly communicable possibility...
Its about time we begin again, using the original strains of immunization, to prohibit any questions of future demise of our children's children, to the hands of those waiting soo long to effect their so caled comeuppance upon our soil..
Sound like something out of Kubrick's FIRST motion picture...Dr. Strangelove...? Purity Of Essence.... P.O.E. ?
Scared yet?
Just jokin.