life before polio vaccine
Before polio vaccine: snapshots of life in the shadow of polio. Before the introduction of polio vaccine, little could be done to prevent children becoming infected by polio. The following pictures and footage give a snapshot of life in the shadow of polio, in Canada in the middle of the twentieth century.n this photo, a room full of polio victims live on lung support in Los Angeles 1952. The second broadcast, also, from CBC is a radio report on a 1951 outbreak among the indigenous population in Northern Canada.