I have heard and read recent reports of a revised method of administering polio vaccine–returning to injections rather than oral doses. Statements were added to the effect that the new method could considerably lessen the number of people seeking the inoculations, due to a fear of the pain of the shots.
As a 1951 polio survivor, and a present post-polio syndrome patient, I read this with horror.
I urge the parents of today’s little ones to not take this short-sighted approach to protecting them. I am sure there are many more of my generation who will wholeheartedly second me, as will my children and everyone else close to me.
It’s much better to have a few minutes of discomfort than many years of hard and sometimes very painful work (if one survives).
