In the late 1940s and early 1950s, people in the United States were afraid of contracting polio, a highly contagious, disabling and sometimes deadly disease. It hit children especially hard. At its peak in 1952, the virus infected 60,000 children. Some parents kept their children indoors and isolated during the summer, a season when the Continued

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