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Ellen Feury Levine, Polio Pioneer

A Local Polio Pioneer

In 1954, Ellen Feury Levine, of Cooperstown, became a pioneer. Ellen and the rest of her second grade class at Cooperstown Central School received shots in the first national tests of a trial polio vaccine.

Levine had joined the decades-long, national effort to defeat a virus that ravaged thousands and worried millions of Americans for decades.

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