The more things change, the more they stay very much the same. I wasn’t around for it, but I understand polio — a highly communicable virus with a long incubation period and symptoms that mimicked the flu — was once the most terrifying disease in the United States.
Image: Polio free Children from Trinity Lutheran, York Center and Westmore schools eat cookies in Lombard, Ill., on April 28, 1954, after receiving their polio vaccine shots. The children were part of a test trial of the Salk polio vaccine with the DuPage County Health Department. (Hardy Wieting, Chicago Tribune)
