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Originally Posted by *Laurie*
Polio water. When my older sisters were growing up in NYC during the horrifying polio epidemic of the early 1950's they were told to, at all costs, avoid "polio water". My sisters remember having to put their feet in bleach water before getting into a public swimming pool.
After the polio vax was used, it became known that polio was not transmitted by water.
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I THOUGHT "polio water" was a thing! I havent heard anybody use this expression probably since the 50s, except for myself, but its always on the tip of my tongue when i see standing water, im like, oh, polio water, and people around me are like, what?!