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  • Description is exactly "A Thursday, July 14, 1960 report that an unnamed 4-year-old African-American boy was the first recorded Polio victim in Lauderdale County in 1960 and Alabama's third. The boy's pediatrician stated that "the disease is no longer active, but the child has residual paralysis of both legs and may never walk again. He is to enter the Crippled Children's Hospital for treatment." The child had received no "Salk vaccine.""

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A Thursday, July 14, 1960 report that an unnamed 4-year-old African-American boy was the first recorded Polio victim in Lauderdale County in 1960 and Alabama's third. The boy's pediatrician stated that "the disease is no longer active, but the…
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