Dr Frances Kelsey, thalidomide hero, dies at 101 -- she blocked approval of Thalidomide in the US

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20. I do not remember the polio epidemics, but most...

...definitely remember lining up in school for the little sugar cubes that the oral vaccine was put on. To this day, my 93 yr old mom will still talk about how fearful she was about taking us anywhere in public during the summer, and how thankful she was when the vaccine became available.

I am a pediatric nurse practitioner, and have been since 1976. It is always a challenge to work with vaccine refusing parents. I understand the concern over putting something in your child's body that could have an adverse effect. I wonder how often these same folks stop to consider that any time I write an antibiotic Rx for strep or any ear infection, there is a chance the child could have an anaphylatic reaction and die, even if the med has been taken before without incident.