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This historic image was captured in 1962, during the nation’s Polio Eradication Campaign, and depicted former Epidemic Intelligence Officer (EIS), Donald A. Henderson, MD, MPH, bending down to present a sugar cube to a young boy, in an unidentified location in Atlanta, Georgia. With his father standing by his side, the boy, who was eyeing the sugar cube apprehensively, would swallow the cube, to which a dose of oral polio vaccine had been added. Dr. Henderson was a member of this mobile polio vaccination unit, and could therefore, move from place to place, making these polio vaccinations more accessible to the local families, and their polio-susceptible children.
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Content Provider(s): CDC/ George Stenhouse
Creation Date: 1962
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