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[Trinity11]

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@traveler wrote:

Did anyone see the 60 minutes report on using polio to fight brain cancer?

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Yes, it really is ground-breaking research, I lost someone to brain cancer and while watching it I kept thinking if only it had been available sooner. I felt badly for the people who didn't make it, though. The 60 year old woman who tried so hard to live...very sad. Apparently, there needs to be a lot more research but it still gives hope to so many that suffered with no hope of remission.

[Lucky Charm]

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@Tissyanne wrote:

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@Lucky Charm wrote:

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@Tissyanne wrote:

I am very happy for Amy, Steve, and Bree. Adorable host, and I wish her all the best. 

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@Tissyanne  That's really strange that you were replying to another thread, but it showed up on this old one!

Bizzare!!

ETA:  Obviously you were replying to the Amy Stran thread and that's shows as the title, but somehow it 'attached' itself to an old Polio thread.

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@Lucky Charm, I have no idea how that happened. I haven't been on that thread. 

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@Tissyanne--what is really strange, is that the title about Amy, stays with your responses!  You didn't respond to the Amy Stran thread?  Did you want to respond to the Polio thread?  I'm really confused!

I know this thread is about polio, and I read every one's responses.  To those who knew someone who suffered, my heart goes out to you. 

But reading the responses and then to see a reply pop up congratulating Amy was...just...weird.

[Mellie32]

That was before my time, but my parents have talked about it.  My uncle's first wife has polio.  I've never heard of the sugar cube thing.  The vaccine was literally in sugar cube form?

[BornToShop]

@Mellie32, back in the early 60's, they introduced a live virus version of the vaccine & administered it via a sugar cube.  They used a "killed"  virus vaccine during the 1950's by inoculation.  I grew up in a small rural town in Nebraska that was very community oriented.  That was a big day for the town when gathered at City Hall for that cube!.  

[Mellie32]

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@BornToShop wrote:

@Mellie32, back in the early 60's, they introduced a live virus version of the vaccine & administered it via a sugar cube.  They used a "killed"  virus vaccine during the 1950's by inoculation.  I grew up in a small rural town in Nebraska that was very community oriented.  That was a big day for the town when gathered at City Hall for that cube!.  

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That's very interesting.

[dooBdoo]

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@Lucky Charm wrote:

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@Tissyanne wrote:

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@Lucky Charm wrote:

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@Tissyanne wrote:

I am very happy for Amy, Steve, and Bree. Adorable host, and I wish her all the best. 

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@Tissyanne  That's really strange that you were replying to another thread, but it showed up on this old one!

Bizzare!!

ETA:  Obviously you were replying to the Amy Stran thread and that's shows as the title, but somehow it 'attached' itself to an old Polio thread.

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@Lucky Charm, I have no idea how that happened. I haven't been on that thread. 

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@Tissyanne--what is really strange, is that the title about Amy, stays with your responses!  You didn't respond to the Amy Stran thread?  Did you want to respond to the Polio thread?  I'm really confused!

I know this thread is about polio, and I read every one's responses.  To those who knew someone who suffered, my heart goes out to you. 

But reading the responses and then to see a reply pop up congratulating Amy was...just...weird.

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          @Lucky Charm,  It's just the way the software works.    When you click on the "reply" of a post within a thread, your comment will automatically use the "title" of that post you hit "reply" on.    You have the option of using it, or editing it (as I did, to bring it back to the thread's title).   That's why someone changing the sub-title in a thread, midstream, can throw off some of the subsequent posts' subtitles (and also makes a person's notification feed/activity profile have thread titles that might not make sense).    eta:   It looks like @Tissyanne posted her comment on the other thread about Amy's news, and the moderator inadvertently moved it while deleting a few offensive posts.  Hope that explanation makes sense, I'm a wee bit brain-foggier than usual tonight.

[SaRina]

I was very young and terrified of the word "polio".  I remember pictures of the iron lung.  I thought once you were put in the iron lung, you could never get out -- that you were in there for life.  I cried when we were told we would be getting the vaccination because I expected a painful shot. I was so relieved to get the sugar cube.

[Mellie32]

The disease that we were all terrified of when I was young was AIDS.

[dooBdoo]

          I learned a lot about polio from the PBS series on President Roosevelt, and also from this documentary, "A Paralyzing Fear: The Story of Polio In America."    (I posted this on another thread last year):

"Here's a film review about polio and vaccines:

Film Review: When There Was No Vaccine

2/6/15

"Within the living memory of the oldest Baby Boomers is a terrifying specter that haunted childhood in America.   It was a disease, a disease that could have no symptoms, or could begin with a chill and then cripple or kill the victim.   It could spring up at school, at a birthday party, at a summertime swimming pool.   It mostly affected children, but it also paralyzed a future president, Franklin Roosevelt, who surmounted it but never recovered from it. It infected tens of thousands of new victims a year in the decade after World War II.   There was no cure and there was no vaccine.   The disease is polio...

... Nina Gilden Seavey’s 1998 documentary A Paralyzing Fear: The Story of Polio In America, now streaming on Amazon and Snag Films, is a timely and urgent reminder of the heartbreaking effects of an unchecked, brutal virus...

...The terrifying potential consequences are on view in the history captured in A Paralyzing Fear.   That history must be seen, and its repetition must be prevented.   As one of the interviewed victims says of the vaccine, “For me, it was too little, too late.   But I was glad that nobody else would have to go through this...”

(link to article:  http://www.nationalmemo.com/film-review-vaccine/)

[JustJazzmom]

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@Noel7 wrote:

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@JustJazzmom wrote:

All of these diseases are common also to Orthodox Jewish communities too. In fact there is currently an ongoing outbreak of chicken pox in Wiliamsburg, Brooklyn, NY -- in an Orthodox Jewish Community.

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Oh no   That's terrible.

@JustJazzmom

Do they not believe in vaccinating?

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I guess not-- some Orthodox do vaccinate and some others do not. Yes, it is sad.