mhoye on Nostr: In the 40's and 50's polio was the most feared disease in the world, for good reason. ...
In the 40's and 50's polio was the most feared disease in the world, for good reason. Look at that horrifying upward spike, from '42 to '52. And then: a downward spike to nothing.
Pre-internet, pre-global-comms, news of Salk's polio vaccine made it around the world in minutes.
In North America Polio went from being terrifying, paralyzing illness, indiscriminately striking rich and poor alike, to being effectively gone in a decade.
Vaccines are a miracle.
https://ourworldindata.org/polio 
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