Carol Ferguson: Vaccines work — life lessons from polio survivors

We’ve been here before.

For half of the 20th century, polio was affecting tens of thousands of children annually. Transmitted by person-to-person contact, polio’s lingering paralytic effects frightened anxious parents so much that people avoided gatherings altogether. Schools were closed, activities were paused. There was no vaccine, no cure, no hope for eradication. The children who were infected were ostracized in their community for fear of further spreading the disease.

To read the complete article, click here.