'Everybody was terrified': Remembering Cork’s polio epidemic of 1956
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📍 Cork, Ireland (approximate) 🕑 10 h ago
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- Sat 24 Oct, 13:41 · 10 h ago ‘The mark of polio’: The Cork survivors still living with an epidemic from 70 years ago Irish Examiner · first report
- Sat 24 Oct, 19:00 · 5 h ago 'Everybody was terrified': Remembering Cork’s polio epidemic of 1956 echo live
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- 'Everybody was terrified': Remembering Cork’s polio epidemic of 1956
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