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PHOTO: National Archives Just before I published last week’s story of my polio epidemic recollections, I received an email from Eugene. “In June of 1960, my father played a role in the inoculation of thousands of RI residents against polio in a single day, evidently an innovative strategy at the time. My father has many colorful recollections of the logistics required to pull off what was apparently a memorable day . . . using an injection device that did not utilize a needle and could rapidly inoculate one hundred patients before . . . its vaccine change.” His Dad is my friend, Ed Yazbak, who practiced Pediatrics and was a school physician in Northern Rhode Island for 34 years. He was the Assistant Clinical Director for infectious diseases at the Charles V. Chapin Hospital and the Director of Pediatrics at the Woonsocket Hospital. There is not enough room to include all he has done. ....
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