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    1. [IOWA] Polio shots
    2. Dan LeDroit
    3. I remember getting my shot in kindergarten. We all lined up along the hallway and went into the first grade room, one by one. I went in, got my shot and came back out, walking past my classmates. Someone asked me, "How was it"? I stopped to say it was no problem at all.....and then promptly fainted dead away! BTW, I read an article a while back that might explain why 3 of my 62 classmates were hospitalized in the mid-50's for polio-like symptoms and why 3 others now have MS. The article said that when the vaccine was sent out, they were 225,000 doses (or some such number) short of having enough. So they sent placebo or lower-dose doses to the schools in rural areas of SD, NE, IA and ND, thinking that those children never went anywhere much and probably would never come into contact with the virus. Hmmmm!

    03/06/2009 10:58:14