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There are records of a disease that fits the description of polio from Ancient Egypt in 1570–1342 BCE.

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Michael Underwood was the first person to actually describe what polio was in 1789.

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The first US polio outbreak was in 1894 Louisiana.

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Polio was all over NYC places during the 1916 outbreak, but it was mostly in stables from stable flies. Whatever happened, someone did a job well done because it was mostly contained to only NYC.

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During the 1916 NY outbreak, police would patrol the waters between NY and Brooklyn. If they found anyone trying to cross by boat, they would take them back immediately.

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Many people have attempted to create the polio vaccine, and Jonas Salk succeeded in 1955.

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Because of polio, there are many foundations and organizations dedicated to raising money for polio prevention.

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Thanks to polio, there are many elderly people that are paralyzed from it.

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There are many people that do not want their children to have polio, so the vaccine is almost a necessity. Long ago before all the outbreaks, people wouldn't have even thought about getting a vaccine for their kids (It wouldn't have been invented yet anyway).