I also had whooping cough. I still remember the whooping for hours and hours. I knew of one kid that the mumps dropped on, boy was he sick. Whooping cough has made quite a come back in the State of Washington this last year. Several in our city had it (whooping cough) this winter. We had one kid in my class who came down with polio before the vaccination came out. My folks were so relieved that the polio vaccination came into being. I raised in a very small rural community in isolated Eastern Oregon. We only had 7 or 8 kids per grade in our four room school house. Always amazed that these diseases could even find our place.
