All posts tagged "polio"
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4.3KScience and NaturePolio Makes Its U.S. Debut in Vermont’s Otter Creek Valley in 1894
In June of 1894, a strange nervous disease attacked several children in Vermont’s Otter Creek Valley. It started as a summer cold,...
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11.0KMassachusettsHenning Jacobson Loses His Fight With the Board of Public Health Over Vaccination
Henning Jacobson, a Swedish minister, in 1905 refused vaccination during a smallpox epidemic in Cambridge, Mass., in 1905. Then he refused to...
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