An unusually high amount of poliovirus detections in several European countries in recent months has underscored the ...

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From phones in North Olean and a dazzling total eclipse to helping battling polio, from four lanes to NYC to waiting for a ...

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

Hamish is eager to use his hands again, having had one amputated along with ... George Murphy, consultant plastic surgeon at St Thomas's Hospital, said some good skin from below Hamish's leg ...

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The next year he started looking into different strains of the polio virus and, by 1955, the vaccine he'd created was going into public use. Polio's danger Poliovirus, which causes polio, is extremely ...

The polio virus spreads through contaminated drinking ... These children would spend the rest of their years struggling with crutches, metal leg braces or wheelchairs. The images are difficult ...

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 ...

He’s got polio.” Joey, 17 ... How do you wrestle a leg brace, much less a wheelchair, into such a set-up? The notion that a student with significant disabilities could be accommodated 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 also endured years of physical therapy. I now suffer the effects of post-polio syndrome, which requires me to wear a brace for walking and standing. Many others were much more severely affected.