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  Footage from Children's Archives: Caring for Polio Patients
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  Polio Then and Now
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Flower Stephen Burwick
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The worst thing about polio is that it hasn't gone away; it's still here. I thought it had gone away and it was all over, but it comes back to haunt me in my everyday life more and more. I don't think it`s ever left me. I still have had pain and discomfort.

You know, there's always somebody worse off. Every time I feel sorry for myself, which can happen every day, I always figure somebody's worse off and there was people worse off. There were people that didn't make it. There were people in iron lungs.
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