Six Childhood Scourges We’ve Forgotten About, Thanks to Vaccines. “Parents in the early 1950s lived with a terror: the substantial prospect that their child could touch the wrong toy and end up in a wheelchair, an iron lung or a grave.” https://www.nytimes.com/2024/12/13/health/childhood-diseases-vaccines-preventable.html?unlocked_article_code=1.hE4.p5SD.glGRi3cObUcX