I remember the day I received the vaccine. My mother took me to the local high school, where we joined a long waiting line. It was a warm day, and we stood outside. My mother was wearing a summer dress, and the skirt blew against her legs. I remember how happy she was.

There are an estimated 300,000 polio survivors in the United States. For some, the nomination of Robert F. Kennedy Jr. as health secretary is reviving their painful memories.

In its original form, the virus survives in just two countries. But a type linked to an oral vaccine used in other nations has already turned up in the West.

Can it be that what took years of research to create be undone by non-medical officials who have never stepped into a research laboratory?

My Aunt Jean, my father’s older sister, was a victim of the infamous Cutter vaccine, an early variant of the polio vaccine presumed to contain an inactivated version of the live virus.

Then there’s this: Aaron Siri, Kennedy’s lawyer and the person helping him pick top federal health officials, according to The New York Times, has petitioned the US Food and Drug Administration to revoke approval of the polio vaccine used in this country as well as those for 13 other infectious diseases.

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San Antonio was one of 10 Texas cities to take part in trials of Dr. Jonas Salk’s vaccine; some second-graders also had blood drawn to check for antibodies.