Today in History revisits the Thursday, August 8, 1946, morning edition of the Grand Forks Herald and highlights a story on a polio outbreak in North Dakota and Minnesota. In Grand Forks, health officials urged a voluntary quarantine for children under 15 due to a polio outbreak in North Dakota. Parents were asked to keep kids away from theaters and gatherings. Meanwhile, Minnesota reported 62 new cases, bringing its total to 768.

City health authorities Wednesday (August 7, 1946) issued an appeal to Grand Forks parents and theater owners to co-operate in a voluntary quarantine of all children under 15 while any danger still remains of a continuation of the polio outbreak in the state.

Stressing that no epidemic condition exists in Grand Forks, where eight cases have been reported since

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