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 ...

That was the question posed to polio survivor Carol Kramer one day in the early 1970s, when she was in her early 20s, by a blunt department store salesperson who had noticed the leg braces she ...

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 ...

“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 said, "makes me nuts ...