
SYMHC Classics: Polio, The Dread Disease
Stuff You Missed in History Class
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The After Effects of Polio
In the United States, for instance, polio epidemics would sweep across the country each summer. Teens and adults could get it too. Modern cities would revert to renaissance-like plague practices with quarantines on homes. The after effects of the epidemic were also extremely haunting kids in wheelchairs and leg braces.
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