Six Childhood Scourges We’ve Forgotten About, Thanks to Vaccines. “Parents in the early 1950s lived with a terror: the substantial prospect that their child could touch the wrong toy and end up in a wheelchair, an iron lung or a grave.”
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Six Childhood Scourges We’ve Forgotten About, Thanks to Vaccines. “Parents in the early 1950s lived with a terror: the substantial prospect that their child could touch the wrong toy and end up in a wheelchair, an iron lung or a grave.”
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