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Polio survivors live to tell of ‘Miracle of Hickory’HICKORY (AP) — Shelby Sigmon Duane was the first patient registered at the Fresh Air Camp Hospital in Hickory, a building that volunteers hastily constructed in 1944 to treat the hundreds of Catawba Valley victims hit by the polio epidemic.Duane and a handful of other polio survivors gathered at the building Friday to commemorate the volunteer effort now known as the “Miracle of Hickory.”The one-story brick building now houses the city’s recreationdepartment offices.
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New Bern Sun Journal
New Bern, North Carolina, US
Sun, Jun 07, 1992
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