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In reply to the discussion: New York polio case is the 'tip of the iceberg,' hundreds of others could be infected [View all]NNadir
(33,515 posts)29. My mother-in-law was one of the last people in the US to get polio. Her life was defined by pain.
For most of her adult life she was - necessarily I think - addicted to narcotics. (My father-in-law was a doctor, so this was possible.)
Nevertheless, this addiction had profound effects on my wife's upbringing, and gave her difficult realities to overcome, something she did magnificently, but painfully in an emotional sense.
I had a friend, with whom I have fallen out of contact, who refused to vaccinate her daughter, who must now be in her late 20's.
Hopefully this young woman has addressed her mother's mistake. It's a very terrible disease, one that should have been eliminated as smallpox was.
The creation of these viral reservoirs by the application of ignorance is functionally a crime against humanity.
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New York polio case is the 'tip of the iceberg,' hundreds of others could be infected [View all]
BumRushDaShow
Aug 2022
OP
Some people have lost their minds today! I don't understand the mindset of choosing ignorance.
Lonestarblue
Aug 2022
#22
We basically have polio back because the world will not spend the money to give kids in Africa &Asia
womanofthehills
Aug 2022
#32
Does the oral medications we got in the early 60s provide lifetime protection?
Chainfire
Aug 2022
#4
Polio was eradicated from the US before these antivax idiots brought it back
IronLionZion
Aug 2022
#13