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luckytran@med-mastodon.com ("Dr. Lucky Tran :verified:") wrote:

Some parts of society have always tried to downplay diseases. History has almost always proven them wrong.

DON’T PANIC OVER POLIO AUGUST 1 1948 CHARLES NEVILLE DON’T PANIC OVER POLIO CHARLES NEVILLE THOUSANDS of parents this month will lose weight, sleep and peace of mind worrying about a disease which kills far fewer Canadian children each year than the common whooping cough. Poliomyelitis, the mysterious childhood crippler which more frequently maims than it kills, reaches its seasonal peak during the hot, humid days of midand late summer. It is then that a doctor, called to the bedside of a feverish sickly child who complains of stiff muscles, is most likely to shake his head and pronounce the words a parent dreads: infantile paralysis.