I Caught Mumps from My Sister. It Nearly Killed Me.
by Marlene Moulder I was nine years old, burning up with fever, when my father carried me through the back door of a pediatrician’s office in Houston. Polio was sweeping through communities, and nobody knew yet what was wrong with me. Marlene at about age three. My illness had started with mumps—my sister’s mumps, to be precise. It was 1954. My family shared a home in Houston…
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