a. Smallpox
b. AIDS
c. Polio
2006-09-17 05:43:02 · 18 answers · asked by Anonymous in Social Science ➔ Anthropology
Definitely polio
2006-09-17 18:09:46 · answer #1 · answered by BJ H 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Polio
2006-09-17 09:33:39 · answer #2 · answered by spiritcavegrl 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Polio
2006-09-17 09:32:30 · answer #3 · answered by Sara 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Polio
2006-09-17 07:52:05 · answer #4 · answered by skyeblue 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Polio, even the president FDR had polio. There were great polio epidemics in the 1940s and 1950s and it would strike children most often.
2006-09-17 05:47:26 · answer #5 · answered by muslimah 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
AIDs had not been identified yet, smallpox had a vaccine (tho' not as widely used as it was in the '50's and '60's), but polio had no defense or vaccine. It was the BIG one, according to my mother...the one every parent feared.
The above answer was thorough and quite good. The question, however, was "What was the most "DREADED" disease?". I think I'd still cast my vote for polio.
2006-09-17 13:02:54 · answer #6 · answered by Gwynneth Of Olwen 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Polio.
2006-09-17 09:38:38 · answer #7 · answered by vim 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Polio!
Playgrounds closed.
Our swimming pools closed in Summer.
Any gathering by children were curtailed.
Movies suffered attendance.
Parents were hysterical when another case surfaced.
It was a frightening time. ANY symptom of any illness, by children, worried the hell out of parents.
There were very few "Iron Lungs" and it was one of the treatments used when polio affected the respiratory system. Many cases resulted in death if not cripples.
I pray we never see it again.
Dr. Jonas Salk was the hero when he discovered a vaccine.
2006-09-17 06:03:00 · answer #8 · answered by ed 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Smallpox had been put under control by inoculation, AIDS had not yet emerged from what ever cold dank pit of Hel it came from. Polio was still the big boy on the block. It struck down,crippled him, a President and killed or maimed millions around the world.Until the Salk vaccine parents feared everyday of warm weather.
2006-09-17 05:55:34 · answer #9 · answered by ? 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It sure wasn't AIDS and I think the polio vaccine was invented by about that time, so my vote is for smallpox.
Personally I'd say it was flu. In the 1920s an epidemic killed a large # of people, and there was no vaccine or cure for it in the 1940s.
Malaria was (and still is) a big killer of people, especially 3rd world nations and/or tropical climates.
2006-09-17 05:46:58 · answer #10 · answered by Funchy 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋