• Lauchs@lemmy.worldOP
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    Reality: This is a happy one! In 1954 testing of Salk’s polio vaccine began en masse. Before the vaccine polio killed thousands of children every year and crippled thousands. Thanks to widespread vaccination, polio is all but eradicated.

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      Brave lad. I’m sure he would rather have had the sublingual sugar cube, that needle is gnar