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Childhood memories - for the friends in the #USA. In Germany, I had the luck to get the first improved #polio #vaccine of 1961/62 (the older one was not so effective). The advertising for the #vaccination was everywhere, in newspapers, TV, and on walls in the streets. We queued with our parents in droves, enthusiastic.

We still knew people personally who were horribly deformed or paralysed by the disease, if they hadn't died first.
I remember when Europe became polio-free! AltText for more info

Advertising for the vaccination in 1970. At the right is a leg in the typical metal leg splint that many polio victims had to wear for the rest of their lives. Text: Kinderlähmung ist grausam, Schluckimpfung ist süß. Einfach. Sicher. Kostenfrei. Alle Babys sind dabei + date. Translation: Polio is cruel, oral vaccination is sweet. Simple. Safe. Free of charge. All babies will join in. BTW: We were happy that the new vaccine came from the USA, where it was developed by Albert Sabin. It was a wonder in the Cold War Era: He had developed the vaccine together with UdSSR scientists! (Look for his name in Wikipedia)
Advertising of 1962, newspaper, showing a family eating something with a spoon: Schütze dich und deine Familie gegen Kinderlähmung. Jeder ist gefährdet: Kinder und Erwachsene vom 6. Lebensmonat bis zum 40 Lebensjahr (gemeint: der Zeitraum der Impfung). Und jeder kann sich schützen, einfach und wirksam durch die Schluckimpfung = Everyone is at risk: children and adults from the age of 6 months to 40 years (i.e. the vaccination period). And everyone can protect themselves, simply and effectively through oral vaccination.
An old poster: In the foreground, the stylised face of a little boy with his mouth open and a spoon in his mouth. In the background, taking up a large part of the poster: the black silhouette of a child in the typical walking apparatus of the time for polio victims: the legs are completely encased in metal splints, with the child's hands leaning on four-legged sticks. Many people could not afford wheelchairs at the time. The splints were intended to prevent the limbs - affected by muscle atrophy or paralysis - from becoming deformed - one of the terrible after-effects of the disease. Text: Polio threatens again. Oral vaccination is sweet, polio is cruel.
We had even postmarks with the advertising, here from 1971, clearly visible next to the stamp: 'Polio is bitter, oral vaccination is sweet.' The ‘sweet’ referred to the vaccination given on a lump of sugar. Today, an inactivated updated vaccine is injected intramuscularly.
#usa #polio #vaccine #Vaccination
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In 1967, I was visiting my mother who was in Cardiff Royal Infirmary for surgery.

The very young woman in the bed next to my mother was in an iron lung. She must have been one of last pre-vaccination victims of polio in the UK.

Although I was only 11, that image is still vivid in my 68-year old memory and I've always been first in line for vaccination and grateful for the scientists and medics who developed them...then and now.

Anti-vaxers are dangerous fools 🤬

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