As a physician, I already knew about the short and long-term effects of polio and the terrible, life-long, paralysis it can cause. But while researching and writing a book about t ...

crutches, leg braces, breathing devices, deformed limbs.” Franklin Delano Roosevelt, who used a wheelchair throughout his presidency, is the most famous victim of polio. But at its approximate ...

In its original form, the virus survives in just two countries. But a type linked to an oral vaccine used in other nations ...

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 ...

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