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Early in the 20th century polio would become the world’s most feared disease. The disease hit without warning, tended to strike white, affluent individuals, required longquarantine periods during which parents were separated from children: it was impossible to tell who would get the disease and who would be spared.[11] The consequences of the disease left polio victims marked for life, leaving behind vivid images of wheelchairs, crutches, leg braces, breathing devices, and deformed limbs. However, polio changed not only the lives of those who survived it, but also effected profound cultural changes: the emergence of grassroots fund-raising campaigns that would
revolutionize medical philanthropy, the rise of rehabilitation therapy and, through campaigns for the social and civil rights of the disabled, polio survivors helped to spur the modern disability rights movement.

In addition, the occurrence of polio epidemics led to a number of public health innovations. One of the most widespread was the proliferation of “no spitting” ordinances in the United States and elsewhere.[53]

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Polio as a rich man’s disease

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_poliomyelitis

From Paterson, NJ
http://www.nytimes.com/learning/general/onthisday/bday/0826.html

http://www.amazon.com/Jonas-Salk-Charlotte-DeCroes-Jacobs/dp/0199334412

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On 14 May 1796, Jenner tested his hypothesis by inoculating James Phipps, an eight-year-old boy who was the son of Jenner’s gardener. He scraped pus from cowpox blisters on the hands of Sarah Nelmes, a milkmaid who had caught cowpox from a cow called Blossom,[23] whose hide now hangs on the wall of the St George’s medical school library (now in Tooting). Phipps was the 17th case described in Jenner’s first paper[24] on vaccination.

Jenner inoculated Phipps in both arms that day, subsequently producing in Phipps a fever and some uneasiness, but no full-blown infection. Later, he injected Phipps with variolous material, the routine method of immunization at that time. No disease followed. The boy was later challenged with variolous material and again showed no sign of infection.

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_Jenner