The Great Vaccinator
Radiolab
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Mumps Virus - What Happened to Your Daughter?
Gerald lynne hilliman, how old were you when you came down with mumps? I believe i was five. It was probably in the middle of the night, very late at night. So she gets out of bed, goes across the hall for she comes in to you at one in the morning and wakes up her dad,. The first thing he did as he got out this book, maybe three or four inches thick, hard back, a kind of diagnostic book, looks at his daughter, mumps. And then what he did was something no father does. He laid her back down in bed. No, there was his wife had recently died, and so he had a house
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