Before the rollout of the polio vaccine in the 1950s, the disease paralyzed or killed more than 500,000 people worldwide every year. The darker chapters of public health history do not seem to faze anti-vaccine activists, who have long claimed that measles, a catastrophic disease, is no big deal. Now, it’s polio’s turn to be downplayed. Read the whole story from Mother Jones correspondent Kiera Butler: https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2025/11/the-anti-vax-movements-wildest-claim-yet-polio-wa
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From the late 19th–mid 20th centuries, the nation lived in fear of the polio crisis. Generations of Americans were affected by this incurable illness until a brilliant young medical researcher developed a vaccine. #HopeThroughHistory brings this story: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/hope-through-history/id1507276251 | HISTORY
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