QUEBEC-RESEARCH-L Archives

Archiver > QUEBEC-RESEARCH > 2005-04 > 1113009178


From: "Lisa Lepore" <>
Subject: Re: [Q-R] 20th Century Plague
Date: Fri, 8 Apr 2005 21:12:58 -0400
References: <ee.10b9e8e1.2f880450@aol.com>


----- Original Message -----
To: <>
Sent: Friday, April 08, 2005 11:59 AM
Subject: Re: [Q-R] 20th Century Plague


>
> In a message dated 4/8/2005 1:41:56 A.M. Eastern Daylight Time,
> writes:
>
> I was born in 1955 and remember going to the National Guard
> Armory for the polio vaccine. Sugar cubes in little white cups....
> I don't remember when it was, and I can't remember if my brother
> was there. The thing is that I also remember getting a shot at a
> this armory, but I don't remember if it was the same time or not.
>
> Was it possible that I could have had both?
> ===========================
From: <>

> Lisa,
>
> The Salk vaccine was administered in a series of four injections,
about a
> week apart, over the course of a month. The Sabin vaccine was
administered
> orally, with the vaccine absorbed in a sugar cube. It is quite
likely that you
> received both vaccines. It would be more certain if you remembered
getting
> the series of four shots, rather than "one shot at the armory". On
the other
> hand, if I got a series of four shots a week apart when I was a
little tyke,
> my memory of the occasion wouldn't likely be very clear, either.
>
> Fr. Owen Taggart
>

Thanks for the info, Fr. T -

From reading the other messages, and some other web sites, it seems I
probably
did get both vaccines. What I really remember is dreading going to
the same place to
get another shot, and being surprised to find it was a sugar cube the
next time around.
Since there were no other vaccines that were given this way, I
probably did get both
types of vaccine.

My husband is the same age as me, but grew up in Chicago. He
remembers getting
a shot, then sometime later, "pink liquid in a little cup"

Like Dave, since I can't remember what I did 10 minutes ago, I'm
surprised I remember
this, since I was only 4 and 5 at the time....

Lisa





This thread: