This week-long arc Peanuts arc ran when the measles vaccination was first developed and widely administered in 1967. GoComics republished it as part of their rerun strips late last year, but it could obviously stand to go around again.
Big slow claps to everyone who made a 50-year-old PSA relevant, good job everyone we’re doing GREAT
In case anyone is wondering about the sugar cube line - the polio vaccine, which was also becoming available around the time this was published, was given orally or on sugar cubes
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this is one of my all-time favorite history facts–Robert Sherman went home one night and, when his son told him he had gotten the polio vaccine at school that day, assumed it was a shot and asked him if it had hurt. His son told him it was in the form of a sugar cube, which inspired Sherman to write…