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.

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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.

Before vaccines and public health triumphs, polio was the thing that kept parents up at night. During its peak from 1948 to 1955, the disease swept through towns across America, hitting children ...

Polio Vaccine's Proud PioneersPolio Vaccine's Proud Pioneers Franklin Sherman Elementary School was the site of the first use of polio vacine in the nation.