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Polio survivors in Cork for 70th anniversary of outbreak
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October 20, 2026
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Survivors of polio will gather in Cork later today to mark the 70th anniversary of the final and one of the worst outbreaks of the disease that occurred in this country over a 15-year period in the 1940s and 1950s.
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