Polio epidemic
The first Polio epidemic was in 1894 in Vermont with 132 cases of it.
It was the success of the Salk Vaccine.
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There are still cases of polio out there today, so we have the vaccinations if someday we were to have another breakout of the epidemic!
poor hygiene. airborne sneezes and coughs
A polio vaccine was invented in 1954. Each year after that, the number of polio cases decreased. By 1974, only 5 cases occurred. These were all people who were linked to the polio vaccine.
In the 1930's there was an epidemic of polio. There was also influenza.
it was spread by airborne viruses sneezing coughing and by poor hygiene
Although it does not receive much attention today, the most well-known epidemic of the 1950s was Polio. It affected many people as it swept across America. The polio epidemic reached its peak in the 1950s. The cases of Paralytic Polio went from 33,000 in 1950 to 59,000 in 1952. In 1950, 34,000 people died of tuberculosis, and in 1957, 62,000 people died from influenza.