Canisdirus

I got it once but just in my feet.
The doctor said I had Tolio...

llamb Loc: Northeast Ohio

Are you sure it wasn't Toemaine Poisoning?

~Lee

Canisdirus

I wasn't in Maine then...

Later on I did get the kneesles...could barely walk for days.

pendennis

The "liquid" vaccine was the Sabin, but it wasn't available until around 1962. The first available vaccine was the Salk, by injection, and it was widely distributed in a series of three starting in 1953.

Indi Loc: L. I., NY, Palm Beach Cty when it's cold.

I remember getting a series of shots in elementary school. No permission slips that I can remember, and no vaccination card.

Retina Loc: Near Charleston,SC

Novavax produces true vaccines. DNA and mRNA injections were not vaccines until the term was redefined. So the term anti-vaxxer is inaccurate, pejorative, and based largely on ignorance of molecular biology. I have been and remain a staunch proponent of vaccines since the early 1960's while being opposed to injections of genetic materials for scientifically sound reasons. I suggest that you actually ask why some people refuse certain types of mandated injections before labeling them with a politically charged buzzword. It is not as simple a topic as it appears.

llamb Loc: Northeast Ohio

~Lee

lamiaceae Loc: San Luis Obispo County, CA

I was too young to be a Polio Volunteer. Perhaps that was a good thing. I have no memory of getting the Injection (Salk Vaccine). But I do have a vague memory of getting the Sabin Sugar Cube Polio Vaccine. I got my "sugar cube" in Eagle Rock (A part of Los Angeles next to Glendale, CA). My Cousin got back in line for a second cube because she liked the sugar! I prefer light brown cane sugar. And I have seen my Mom's collection of my childhood immunization cards. I have them somewhere I think. I got all that were available back then. Like today, some cause more pain (soreness at the injection site or limb soreness).

The inoculation that leaves a scare is the one for Smallpox! As you probably know the Smallpox inoculation is no longer given to the general public because the Smallpox Virus was eradication from the Earth (during the Nineteen Seventies?), almost. Likely those working with "Weaponized" Smallpox Virus probably do get jabbed. Sadly, as I remember it, the US and USSR Governments kept some Smallpox Virus for "research" purposes - yea, really.

One here in the USA that they don't usually give most people, but perhaps researchers and travelers to places where it is still endemic, is Tuberculosis. To do so renders the screening Tuberculin Test unusable. I had to have that done every three years when I was teaching. That is the test where they prick your skin with the needle and then you have to return with in the proper number of days (hours actually) for them to see if a welt occurred or not. A welt, or positive reaction mean you have Antibodies to the Tuberculosis Mycobacteria at some point. But you might not be an active case. With TB becoming antibiotic resistant, it might be prudent to inoculate everyone for TB. Anti-vaxxers are fools, and dangerous.

You do not want to get any of those infectious agents.

f8lee Loc: New Mexico

It's fun to see witless comments like this one...for those who do not want to be disabused of their feelings of superiority for getting the jab, I recommend you avoid reading Robert Kennedy's "The Real Anthony Fauci" because you might learn how deep and wide the lies you were fed have been. The fact that he names names (Fauci, Gates, CDC, NIH, NAIAD, Johns Hopkins and more) with loads of facts and citations to same AND that he hasn't been sued to oblivion by any of those miscreants tells us what he wrote is in fact, factual. So avoid learning about the big hoodwink at all costs!

markinvictoria Loc: Victoria TX

This 'Polio' topic brought back lots of memories...I turned 80 last week so it's been a long time ago. I was in 1st grade and my teacher said I had a lazy hand...I kept dropping my pencil and crayons. She would wack my right hand with a ruler. Short time later my parents got involved and I wound up in the doctors office. My older sister remembers when mom and I came out of the doctors office...mom was crying and said I had polio. I wound up in the hospital polio ward. I remember walking down the hall and seeing rooms full of iron lungs. I was one of the lucky ones...it only affected my right hand. The doctors told me to remain right-handed and use it as much as possible. I grew up on the farm thru my high school years...so milking cows and all the other farm labor my hand remained usable. So 70 years later...my right hand is usable but visibly smaller and weaker...and does not like temperatures below 50 degrees. When I hear people bad-mouthing vaccines...I tell them I wish the polio vaccine had been a couple years sooner...my life would have been considerably easier.

grcolts

I was given a sugar cube for polio and a short while later came down with polio. Luckily, it was diagnosed quickly and with treatments and therapy I was ok. I found out years later several people got polio from the cubes.

JFCoupe Loc: Kent, Washington

I just did a very quick google question about polio. Between 198 and 1955 there were a number of polio epidemics in the US. On average 15,000 cases of polio occurred each year. Dr Salk and others did research between 1952 and 1955 to create the vaccine. Some cases were mild while others result in paralysis and some people wee put in iron lungs to help them breathe.

Polio is dangerous and unfortunately more people are decided not to vacinate, and we will probably see an increase in the number of cases again.

Ralphoto Loc: Washington state; now in Pittsburgh

I had polio. Only for a few weeks, as fortune smiled, and a couple spinal taps worked. I got my legs back. People who don't get shots, get sick. Good luck, anti-vaxxers.

Retina Loc: Near Charleston,SC

Good to hear you recovered.

What I read from HHS indicates the latest polio vaccines are made from inactivated viruses, not genetic material. If true, many anti-vaxxers concerned about DNA and mRNA should have no objection to this one in case they missed their earlier polio shot.

revhen Loc: By the beautiful Hudson

I was a child before the vaccine. Thank goodness our children could get the vaccine. The crazy antivaxxers are exposing themselves and their children to all sorts of infections. it has been calculated that vaccines have saved hundreds of millions of lives.