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Mass vaccines helped slow San Antonio s 1970 deadly diptheria epidemic
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A Navy corpsman gets ready to innoculate a resident with diptheria vaccine on Sept. 22, 1970, at San Antonio Municipal Auditorium. The potentially fatal respiratory illness affected mostly children, but adults and children alike were vaccinated to help stop the spread of the disease.File /San Antonio Express-News
Wasn t there a time in the late 1960s where we had a diphtheria epidemic? I remember as a teen standing in line at what was then Municipal Auditorium to be inoculated.
Liz Marshall
To many readers, diphtheria might sound like an antique disease, associated with the story of Balto, the husky hero of the eponymous 1995 animated movie about the leader of a sled-dog team that brought antitoxin serum from Anchorage to suffering children during a 1925 epidemic in Nome. ....

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