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Article: Essay: The summer plague Cork, Ireland, 1956. For six-year-old Patrick Cockburn it should have been a time of carefree innocence. Instead, a polio epidemic was about to change his life forever
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- The Independent (London, England)
- Article date:
- August 7, 1999
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M
y parents, Claud and Patricia Cockburn, were curiously unworried
when they heard of an abnormal number of polio cases in Cork in the
summer of 1956. At the time we had moved from Ireland to Hampstead
for a few months so my father could work at Punch magazine, which
Malcolm Muggeridge had briefly revivified. My mother, though, never
liked London and was eager to get back to the Georgian house and farm
where we normally lived, in the countryside about 30 miles east of
Cork city.
I was six and my brother Andrew nine. My parents knew that we
were vulnerable because polio, also called "infantile paralysis",
primarily affected children. News about the outbreak was sparse, but
the risk seemed ...
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