I remember the day I received the vaccine. My mother took me to the local high school, where we joined a long waiting line.

By Lib Campbell Any of us around in the 1950s remember how scary the thought of contracting polio was. Mothers would insist their children rest in the summer afternoons. I remember pictures of large ...

The originator of the "infinite game" Candy Land designed it as therapy for hospitalized children who were victims of the ...

We need more than just Mitch McConnell speaking out in favor of the polio vaccine. McConnell is one of hundreds of thousands of polio survivors who live in the U.S. However, many are now elderly and ...

And those who grew up before the polio vaccine was available have memories of children returning to school in leg braces, requiring crutches, or using a wheelchair due to paralysis after a bout ...

“I’m not in a wheelchair yet,” said Lane, who uses leg braces and crutches, “but it’s heading that way.” The idea that anyone would question the polio vaccine now, she ...

Arm and leg braces, legs in slings, crutches, bodies totally ravaged in wheelchairs with paralysis. We were reminded daily that at any time, we could catch polio and be wheeled into school on the ...

Any of us around in the 1950s remember how scary the thought of contracting polio was. Mothers would insist their children ...