ID#: 29082
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This historic 1961 photograph depicts a polio vaccination campaign at a high school in Decatur, Georgia, where healthcare providers administered oral polio vaccine on sugar cubes to children accompanied by their parents. In this image, a young girl is being given a vaccine-laden sugar cube by her father, while a nurse steadies her head and guides her to open her mouth.
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Content Provider(s): CDC/ George M. Stenhouse
Creation Date: 1961
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