Opinion

Opinion | A polio survivor reflects on the last great epidemic

By Dr John Tierney
Updated April 14 2021 - 11:30pm, first published October 28 2020 - 9:00pm
PAST EPIDEMIC: John Tierney pictured last year when he received a Queens Birthday Honour for his role as patron and past president of Polio Australia. Picture: Simone De Peak
PAST EPIDEMIC: John Tierney pictured last year when he received a Queens Birthday Honour for his role as patron and past president of Polio Australia. Picture: Simone De Peak

On a hot January afternoon in 1946, the country doctor hurried from attending a polio case at a home in Cooma to the local hospital to deliver me.

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