Stephanie Draper Archives » Bookology Magazine https://www.bookologymagazine.com/tag/stephanie-draper Children's Literature Sun, 14 Mar 2021 15:19:30 +0000 en-US hourly 1 69996714 More from the 1950s: Polio https://www.bookologymagazine.com/features/more-from-the-1950s-polio https://www.bookologymagazine.com/features/more-from-the-1950s-polio#comments Thu, 20 Aug 2015 12:00:40 +0000 https://www.bookologymagazine.com/?post_type=article&p=6472 Another threat besides communism terrified people in the 1950s, especially because it primarily affected children: polio. 1952 saw the largest epidemic in US history: 57,879 people contracted polio that summer, and more than 3000 of died. By the end of the decade the disease was nearly eradicated in the US thanks to two forms of vaccines developed by Drs.

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