Polio in the 1950s
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Polio was the most feared disease in the 1950's. Epidemics spread across parts of the modernized world including America. Polio is an acute viral infection caused by one of three polio viruses. Young children are normally the most susceptible to the infection. Also, they most effectively spread the disease, which is spread through contact with a polio patient or with human feces. The virus enters through the mouth and invades the blood stream. If it into the bowls it causes no more harm then the common cold. It attacks motor neurons and can cause lesions that resulted in paralysis if it enters the central nervous system. Although many recovered from polio without lasting effects. Far to many died, were severely paralyzed, or could not breathe outside of an iron lung. Thousands of which were children. All this led for the need and want of a vaccine to conquer polio and free children of this crippling disease.