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Ilsa

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11. The doctors who had to treat children with severe communicable diseases

Reply to lostincalifornia (Original post)

Fri Jan 23, 2026, 12:56 PM

Jan 23

are all gone, retired or dead, except those who have gone overseas with groups like Doctors Without Borders. Dr Yahoo, even with his pediatric cardiology specialty, apparently slept through his microbiology and immunology lectures.

Shame on him.

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Top CDC vaccine adviser questions need for polio shot, other longstanding recommendations [View all] lostincalifornia Jan 23 OP

Back to iron lungs. Irish_Dem Jan 23 #1

Same here. My mother was also a nurse in the late '40s, and she, too, had stories Ocelot II Jan 23 #4

Iron lungs will never return womanofthehills Jan 23 #7

Trump is destroying modern medical advances. Irish_Dem Jan 23 #8

Not the point. intheflow Jan 23 #9

But wouldn't it be nice if polio vaccines prevented people from having to use ventilators Ocelot II Jan 23 #10

Crazy fucks in the CDC spanone Jan 23 #2

Polio is caused by contact with fecal matter maxrandb Jan 23 #3

Make Polio Great Again! peggysue2 Jan 23 #5

Any doctor Rebl2 Jan 23 #6

The doctors who had to treat children with severe communicable diseases Ilsa Jan 23 #11