Jaclyn your discussion was informative. I agree with you that Polio spared no one. Polio affected all races and men, women and children. When the polio epidemic hit the northern part of the United States during 1916 it resulted in twenty seven thousand people being paralyzed from this virus. The epidemic also claimed the lives of six thousand people. The epidemic continued to worsen and occurring more often as it traveled throughout Europe and increasing the spread to the United States during the start of the twentieth century (https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3782271/).
Even though polio did not discriminate and affected all races it was considered a white person’s disease. During the civil rights era it was believed that black
Even though polio did not discriminate and affected all races it was considered a white person’s disease. During the civil rights era it was believed that black