There was once a time when students marched in a line to receive a sugar cube that contained a vaccine to ward off the polio pandemic sweeping the country.

In the time before widespread vaccination, young children often lost their lives to devastating infectious diseases that ran rampant in America.

During the summer of 1944, children under the age of 14 could not participate in some of their usual activities due to a polio outbreak in the Louisville area.

During the same exercise, Hajiya Saadatu Hamza, supervisor of the Dandalbatu Polio Immunization Unit in Masango Ward, praised the high level of community cooperation.

Two new cases of polio have been confirmed in Hadejia and Suletankarkar Local Government Areas of Jigawa State, marking a setback after nearly a decade of being declared polio-free.

After undergoing two weeks of hospital treatment and two months of bed rest, I learned I was the only patient in that hospital’s polio ward not developing any paralysis.

She found it odd, then, that she was placed in the polio ward. She told the nurse she didn’t have polio. She had Virus X — just like her father said.

Back then, fear and doubt about polio were rampant. But the nation didn’t dwell on problems. We did what Americans always do — focused on solutions.

She found it odd, then, that she was placed in the polio ward with other children. She told the nurse she didn’t have polio. She had Virus X — just like her father said.

She found it odd, then, that she was placed in the polio ward with other children. She told the nurse she didn’t have polio. She had Virus X — just like her father said.

She found it odd, then, that she was placed in the polio ward with other children. She told the nurse she didn’t have polio. She had Virus X — just like her father said.

I was given those shots when I was in the hospital with polio. I was in a polio ward with probably 20 kids. Our lungs were lined up and down the room.