Get rid of polio for good

It was just 22 years ago, in 1994, that Canada was declared “polio-free.” Until a vaccine was developed in 1955, polio crippled tens of thousands of Canadians, mostly children, peaking in 1953 when 500 died. Canada’s last major polio epidemic was in 1959, with just under 2,000 paralyzed. Many...

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