81 Years Ago: 5 Kids in the Same Family Were Paralyzed by Polio Within 48 Hours After They All Got Their Tonsils Out on the Same Day

Physicians for Informed Consent Reveal Risks and Benefits of the Polio IPV: For Normal-Risk Children, the Polio Vaccine is Not Proven Safer than Polio Infection

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One of the largest US polio outbreaks was in the 1950’s, where children lined hospital Emergency Rooms and waited for an “iron lung”. One such survivor, Paul Alexander, recalled waking up in an iron lung, thinking he was dead.

Below: As far as little Paul's eyes could see, children were on mechanical ventilators.

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How Did Doctors Discover that Getting Tonsils Out Leads to Paralyzing Polio?

On September 14, 1942, Time magazine reported on a family who had six