Bob Dobbs wrote:
Billy Burpelson wrote:
wrote:

I remember when I was a kid in Carthage,Mississippi
www.thecarthaginian.com back in the 1940s getting that polio
vaccine.Did y'all know that polio vaccine was an experimental vaccine
and they didn't know if it would work or not? I reckon it worked for
me.I am still here.
Well, the real deal polio vaccine that actually worked went into
national distribution in either '53 or '54. If you had a vaccine in the
40s, it must have been the experimental stuff -- which, by the way,
DIDN'T work. So, if you didn't get polio, it was because you weren't
exposed...no thanks to that experimental stuff. Either that or you got
your dates wrong and really got the vaccine in the early 50s.

I remember my sister being one of what were called the 'polio pioneers'
when she took the test vaccines in 54 that were officially released in
55. This was in the Leavell Woods neighborhood of south Jackson MS.
There were sugar cubes dipped in some red liquid, and then there were
some shots called boosters. http://tinyurl.com/Salk-Vacccine

The sugar cubes were Sabin Oral Vaccine. These came after the 3 Salk
shots. I had both.