She invented the game nearly 80 years ago to distract children who were suffering in the hospital during a polio outbreak.
Category: Poliomyelitis
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Overlooked No More: Eleanor Abbott, the Creator of Candy Land
The New York Times – Business:
She invented the game nearly 80 years ago to distract children who were suffering in the hospital during a polio outbreak.
President-elect Donald Trump’s choice for health secretary has suggested that the polio vaccine cost more lives than it saved and that the vaccine did not wipe out the disease in the U.S.