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Capitol Newsletter: Recalling the threat of polio epidemics
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Ebola cases in Dallas and New York have captured the nation's attention and caused fear in many citizens. But it is nothing like the terror in every town in America in the early 1950s about polio - a disease that seemed largely to strike young people. It was a disease seemingly just around the corner rather than in a distance city or continent.