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RE: Monkeys & Medicine: How 17th Century Pets Helped Prevent 1.5 Million Childhood Deaths
My house, built in the 1950s in a returning GI neighborhood, still has a ramp to support the post-polio patient who lived here for so long. He died of an infection soon after they moved out.
The same neighborhood used to have a public pool, which closed during the polio scare of the 1950s, because apparently it was mostly a water-borne virus.
I came across the pool thing in my research. I didn't dig into it but it seems like the paranoia about pools was unfounded because by then they were treating pools with Chlorine which kills the virus. (but like I said I didn't look into it deeply)
People were just so frightened of catching it that they became really cautious!
Yeah, I only moved here 10 years ago, so I wasn't around for that. I just found some of the leftover concrete in the neighborhood park where they had torn it down.