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by dalke 3557 days ago
How did you not get the polio vaccine?

It should have been something you got as a kid, as an oral vaccine, back in the 1970s.

Polio vaccination for an adult living in a developed country is neither necessary nor recommended.

"Routine vaccination against smallpox ended in the United States in the early 1970s as its incidence lessened." http://www.historyofvaccines.org/content/articles/history-sm... . You are too young to have warranted receiving a smallpox vaccine.