Opinion: Universal vaccination spared future generations from polio. That is what is maddening about today’s measles outbreak: It was so avoidable, writes Bob Greene
Just off U.S. route 30 in western Nebraska, on Buffalo Bill Avenue, sits the Lincoln County Historical Museum. Inside is an unexpected exhibit that I think about as a cruel and unnecessary measles outbreak spreads in the U.S.
The exhibit consists of a massive cylindrical iron lung, constructed of gray-green metal, manufactured in the 1930s by the Wiesner-Rapp Co. of Buffalo, N.Y. It was the first iron lung purchased in Lincoln County, to be used in St. Mary’s Hospital to treat children with polio, also known as infantile paralysis.
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