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Jackson County Confronts 1935 Polio Outbreak

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In 1935, four-year-old Joyce Durham wasliving with her family in a tent on Birdseye [bird-zee] Creek near Rogue River, Ore., when she contracted poliomyelitis...

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1019
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Kernan Turner