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A city in North Carolina that experienced a polio outbreak in 1944, with overwhelmed hospitals and many patients.

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Conquering Polio | The March of Dimes | 1

In early June 1944, a young boy in the small furniture-making town of Hickory, North Carolina, fell ill with a fever and a stiff neck.