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By now, you’ve likely seen the famous photograph of Tupelo native son Elvis Presley, arm raised and big grin, as he took a hypodermic in the arm from Harold Fuerst, the New York City Assistant Commissioner of Health, as Fuerst’s boss, Commissioner Leona Baumgartner, looked on. That day – Oct. 28, 1956 – stood as a deliberate way to manipulate teenagers in the United States to take the Salk Polio Vaccine. Scheduled to perform on the “Ed Sullivan Show” just minutes later, Elvis took the vaccine in a highly publicized press conference to instill confidence in the vaccine. A little more than three years prior, Jonas Salk had announced on CBS Radio that he had tested a vaccine against polio. This came after 1952 when 58,000 new cases had been reported in the U.S. and 3,000 people had died.

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