Article: 'CHILDREN'S CRUSADE' BEGAN 40 YEARS AGO SABIN SUNDAY WIPED OUT DISEASE, FEAR.(NEWS)

Forty years ago this weekend, thousands of Cincinnati children stood with their parents in long lines outside schools, hospitals and clinics - drawn by the fear of the most dreaded disease in America, and by the hope offered by a few drops of cherry-flavored vaccine.

The date was April 24, 1960 - ''Sabin Sunday,'' named after Dr. Albert B. Sabin, a scholarly looking, white-haired doctor from Children's Hospital whose quarter-century war with polio was about to end in medical science's greatest success story of the 20th century. ''What a day to behold,'' recalled Paul Andrews Jr. of Bond Hill, a retired Children's lab technician who helped prepare the vaccine - ...

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