In 1894 the United States experienced its first epidemic of poliomyelitis, then called acute paralysis or Heine-Medin disease. During the summers, of the 1930's Epidemics swept around the U.S. It left 27,000 people dead and thousands of people paralyzed. http://www.brown.edu/Departments/Clinical_Neurosciences/articles/sa3594.html I was among the 1956 kids who benefited from the Salk vaccine- ! It was pretty scary back then- no swimming in public, etc.. I had a couple of friends who contracted the disease- but luckily were not severely affected , however, it was causing them some problems in the 1980's! Carolyn -----Original Message----- From: Paulette Hilk <paulette@elite.net> To: CAMARIPO-L@rootsweb.com <CAMARIPO-L@rootsweb.com> Date: Friday, April 20, 2001 7:23 AM Subject: [CAMARIPO] Question >I am working in the Le Grand Advocate of 1927, there is a big article on >Infantile Paralysis. It is telling how many cases there are in the last >couple of months in CA. This is the first time I have seen this disease >in the paper. Was it called something else before this time. It seem >they had not started calling it Polio. > >-- >Thomas and Paulette Hilk >1725 Wildwood Ct. >Merced, CA. 95340 > >E-mail address: paulette@elite.net > > > >==== CAMARIPO Mailing List ==== >Submit your Family Chronicle for publishing to the Mariposa GenWeb Site to sweetwater@sierratel.com > >