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A Childhood Terror

The history of polio in the U.S.

David Oshinsky remembers growing up in an America terrified by polio—a plague that put every child at risk until a vaccine was finally developed in the mid-1950s.

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David Oshinsky, the author of Polio: An American Story reflects on the history of polio and the final push needed for eradication.

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