Netherlands - Norway - Sweden

1963 - Third Child Dies In Dutch Polio Village: A third child has died in the polio epidemic at the Dutch village of Staphorst. Though most children in the Netherlands are vaccinated against polio nowadays, the very conservative Calvinistic population of Staphorst always refused to be vaccinated. Photo shows Children, some of them wearing costumes, pictured in the Dutch polio village of Staphorst. (Credit Image: (c) Keystone Pictures USA/ZUMAPRESS.com/Mary Evans)

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19600104 Calvinistic Dies Epidemic Nowadays Polio Refused Though Vaccinated

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