polio
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Letter to the editor: Vaccines are made by people
I don’t know why the polio vaccines ended up being named after individuals, whereas others have not. Perhaps if the COVID vaccine were named after someone, it would…
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Letter to the editor: Anti-vax beliefs are not new
I am writing in response to Claire Corkins’ “Ways of Seeing” article and to Alden Harwood’s letter to the editor concerning vaccinations. I am of the polio generation,…
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Ways of seeing: Polio generation trusted the vaccine
My father recalled a day during elementary school when all the kids from the school were taken down to the Town Hall, and everyone was given a polio…
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Middlebury Rotary marks World Polio Day; the disease’s eradication has been a global Rotary mission for decades
MIDDLEBURY — Local Rotarians were out on Middlebury’s Court Square last Saturday, a damp, cool fall day, to mark World Polio Day and bring attention to another virus…