'Everybody was terrified': Remembering Cork’s polio epidemic of 1956 - 世界杯直播

“Getting polio was like getting leprosy,” says Máire Ní Chorcora. “That’s what it was like before the vaccine came out, everybody was terrified that their child would get it, it was like leprosy.” A native of Mallow, she was 16 months old when she co... [6083 chars]