Anyone here remember the mass polio vaccination?

So many diseases were virtually eliminated only to be reserected thanks to the stupid antivaxers I even had one know it all state that measles never hurt anyone. The ignorance of these people is causing real hardship, deaths and maiming.

1957 I had the polio jab, unfortunately they were jabs and not sugar lumps at the beginning. I was fine but then fainted in the street on the way home. I've hated needles ever since. There was a smallpox outbreak in 1966 and I had to have the innoculation so I could go on my first holiday abroad with a friend. We were all lined up in the doctor's surgery, a nurse came down the line and swabbed us with the the doc following on with the innoculations. I fainted when he did the first person in line but had come round by the time he reached me . Would still be first in line for the covid jab if given the opportunity though.

During the polio epidemic in (I think) the 1950s a girl in my class contracted polio.
We were all swiftly vaccinated, but were then not able to have the TB jab as it was not recommended to have 2 so close together - how things have changed with babies and toddlers being given multiple vaccinations in their early years.

A school friend’s dad died of polio, it was terrible. And I should have had two more uncles but they died at 4and 2 yrs old from Diptheria , This is the main problem with Anti Vaxxers they have lived their lives free from terrible diseases, and then ironically turn against the very thing that has allowed them this luxury. Eejits !!!}

Yes I renember the time of the polio vaccine I was born in 1943,TB was also prevalent then. It was 1954 when I was diagnosed as diabetic and I remember thinking that I would rather have that than T B or Polio.An opinion I never changed.

Franbern oh yes, I remember that. 1942b I had to go along to the Town Hall on my own as an 8 yr old as my mother had smaller children at home so couldn't take me.....other children from my class at school with their mothers were there, one helped me as I had the jab in my arm with the other children! outbreak 1949-50. London. lots on line.

the sugar lump polio vaccine was many years later!!

aggie I had my small pox vaccination on my ankle too - but it was actually the GP who suggested it.

I'm a bit young to remember the polio outbreak, but I do remember seeing pictures of iron lungs on the news and in magazines, and my friend's neighbour's son had to wear calipers as a result of polio. So it was all fairly fresh.

This is such a timely thread Franbern to remind us all of how vitally important vaccinations are to eradicate nasty illnesses.

I remember, as a child, being absolutely horrified at the pictures of children who had contracted polio, and were then encased in the ghastly iron lungs.

The pictures made such an impact on me that I have had every vaccine offered since.

The Smallpox inoculation was scratched on to your arm , my Mim made the GP do it on out ankle so that we didn’t have the round scar on our arms !

Don't remember the polio vaccination, but remember seeing children in calipers in the 1950s.
I do however remember queuing up at the local surgery for the smallpox jab, as I think there was an outbreak in the 50s.
Can't wait for the call-up for the Covid vaccine!

Mum was a teacher in a primary school, she told us all her pupils spat it out as soon as they got out of the room , because they were all off sugar for Lent !

I don’t remember needles being used for the Polio inoculations, we had drops on a sugar lump