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Polio Impact On Children In The 1950s

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Polio Polio is a disease that mainly would affect children who were under the age of five and would usually leave them paralyzed or even take their lives. The infectious disease had a great impact on America in 1950’s because nobody really understood where or how these children were getting Polio. Out of fear and concern, the American people came together to try to find the cause and the cure of the illness. The Polio epidemic was affecting the people in large numbers, a sum of 57,000 victims in the year of 1952. Parents were afraid to let their children go to public pools. Scientist knew that it was a viral disease but, were not sure of how it was transmitted or how to treat it. Polio was traumatizing for parents and children alike.
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