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This historic image was captured in 1962 in Atlanta, Georgia, during the nation’s Polio Eradication Campaign, and depicted former Epidemic Intelligence Officer (EIS), Donald A. Henderson, MD, MPH, interacting with a mother and her new baby, about to give the baby a dropper of oral polio vaccine. The mother was eyeing the dropper bottle apprehensively, while Dr. Henderson was reassuring her that there was nothing about which she needed to worry, and how the vaccine would prevent her baby from acquiring the crippling disease, poliomyelitis. 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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