Not for your benefit, since you seem to have an incurable case of wilful ignorance, but for the benefit of others, a real brief history of the polio vaccine:
“in 1953, there were 35,000 new cases of polio in the United States. In 1954, Salk’s vaccines were tested in massive trials sponsored by the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis. More than 1.8 million children-—called Polio Pioneers-—took the vaccine, took a placebo or took neither. The success of the trials was announced in a press conference in 1955 and by 1957, after mass immunization began, the United States had only 5,600 new cases. In 1962, the Sabin oral vaccine came into use and by 1964, there were only 121 new cases of polio reported in the United States. In 1979, the last case of indigenous polio occurred in the United States.”
So polio went from 35,000 cases / year to zero thanks to the vaccine. With the work of foundations and international aid groups, polio vaccine is on the verge of eliminating it worldwide.
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Any of us born in the 1960s were spared a risk from this dread disease that crippled and killed many in prior generations.
The 35000 cases were an insignificant number, and most of those cases were extremely mild, with no lasting consequences.
After the introduction of the salk vaccine, serious paralytic polio spiked, and deaths too. It was caused by the vaccine. I had several friends that were disabled by the vaccine caused disease, in 1955 if my memory serves. It was prepared by Cutter Labs of Berkeley.
I found myself in an interesting position shortly thereafter, when my closest cousin married the only son of the CEO of Cutter. It was really sticky when I asked him if he would like to meet some of the victims of his product.