On April 12, 1955, researchers announced the first polio vaccine, which was instantly approved. Before vaccines were available, polio caused 15,000 cases of paralysis in the US each year.

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"You can't die from chronic diseases when you're 50 if you've already died from measles or polio or whooping cough when you're 5." California correspondent Christine Mai-Duc contributed to this ...

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