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November 2024 Newsletter

Inside this issue: We have shared an extensive article by Richard L. Bruno, PhD along with tributes from all over the world.

Survivor Jim Smith - completely paralyzed from the neck down, his parents took him to the hospital and were told "take him home - the hospital if full". Jim has a special perspective on life with the effects of this terrible disease.

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Thank you Dr. Salk –The Scientist Who Beat Polio and Healed the World

“My favorite part was how on one of the first pages it said ‘Adults kept away from bakeries and banks. Children kept away from pools and parks’ and then later in the book it said ‘Adults headed to bakeries and banks. Children headed to pools and parks’.

I liked this part very much because it showed how Jonas Salk made sure that people could go safely to where they wanted to go, and that meant that they did not have to live in fear anymore.

By Chloe

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The Last of the Iron Lungs

All the nurses were saying, ‘Just a second, you’ll be breathing in just a second.’ ” Martha Lillard

“The ‘yellow submarine’ is my necessary, trusted, mechanical friend.” Mona Randolph

“If there’s so many people who’ve not been- children, especially - have not been vaccinated . . . I don’t even want to think about it.” Paul Alexander

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