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Date Posted: 15:39:14 07/27/15 Mon
In reply to:
Boyd Percy
's message, "Re: "Forgotten Killer," new book from Spearfish Lake Tales, now available for preorder" on 18:17:36 07/25/15 Sat
Boyd, it's interesting to see that Polio still exists in the 3rd world. I went to high school with a guy who'd contracted polio in Egypt (his father was diplomatic corps and they weren't able to get the vaccine for some reason). He's now a noted artist who was featured on CNN recently, so he's more than overcome any disability he has. But at the time, i wouldn't have traded places with him for anything in the world.
>>The next book from Spearfish Lake Tales, Forgotten
>>Killer, is now available for preorder.
>>
>>While this is a "Tale from Spearfish Lake," it's not
>>one of the "Bird" stories involving Jack, Vixen and
>>others involved in those stories. Except for a couple
>>of short sections set in 2015, it's mostly set in
>>1955, and contains no spoilers for upcoming books. At
>>least in part, it honors the sixtieth anniversary of
>>the release of the Salk polio vaccine. There are
>>getting to be fewer and fewer who remember the impact
>>of that event, and I thought it ought to be
>>memorialized.
>>
>>Here's the summary:
>>
>>It's all but forgotten now, but two things scared
>>people in the first half of the 1950s more than
>>anything else. The atomic bomb was one of them, and
>>infantile paralysis - polio - was the other. While
>>polio could strike people of any age, it mostly
>>targeted children, often crippling them for life, and
>>sometimes killing them despite the best possible
>>efforts available to stem the disease. When polio came
>>to Spearfish Lake in 1955, there were only two choices
>>that everyone faced: run and hide, or stand and fight
>>against unknown and seemingly impossible odds, doing
>>what little they could, however they could, for sake
>>of the lives of the town's children.
>>
>>There are a total of twenty-one chapters.
>>
>>You can preorder Forgotten Killer for as little
>>as $19.99 through the Spearfish Lake Tales Store
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>>href="http://www.spearfishlaketales.com/store/40fk.htm
>"
>>>Forgotten Killer page. Preorders will be
>>sent sometime on the afternoon of July 26, Eastern
>>Daylight Time.
>>
>>-- Wes
>
>
>I'm looking forward to the new book, "Forgotten
>Killer".
>
>I read in the newspaper today that Nigeria was
>celebrating a year without any new reported cases of
>polio. Twenty years ago they averaged 1000 new cases a
>year. In addition to the virus, the health care
>workers who travel around the country providing the
>vaccinations have suffered violence to prevent them
>doing their work. Terrorists have claimed the polio
>vaccine is an attempt to sterilize individuals.
>
>You can read more about this subject on the website
>polioeradication.org
>
>So far this year Pakistan has reported 28 new cases of
>the wild polio virus (compared to 94 during the same
>period last year) while Afghanistan had 5 new cases
>this year.
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