The Washington Post, October 20th, 1998
The PBS documentary "A Paralyzing Fear: The Story of Polio in America" {"A Poignant Portrait of Polio," Style, Oct. 5} painted an evocative portrait of the terror Americans felt about polio before the development of the Salk vaccine. As one who lives with the results of polio, I was pleased to see this almost-forgotten disease addressed and the role vaccines play in preventing this illness explained. What the documentary does not say is that the story of polio in the United States still is being written. The latest chapter concerns the few new cases of polio in the United States -- about those...
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