ANN ARBOR, MI - Liina Paasuke cannot remember a time without leg braces. A polio survivor from a young age, all her memories consist of walking with leg and back braces and crutches. The experience ...

DUNMORE – It was a Friday in September 1953. Six-year-old Fred Garvey came home from first grade at Holy Rosary School with a wicked headache. That night, delirium set in as his fever soared. A doctor ...

Erin Olivera didn't know where to turn. It was 2012, and her 1-year-old son, Lucian, had suddenly become paralyzed from the waist down. While he was receiving excellent medical care from his doctors ...

KANSAS CITY, Mo. — By the time Dr. Jonas Salk's polio vaccine was deemed safe and effective in 1955, it was three years too late for Joe O'Brien. "I was fitted for my first braces, leg braces, and I ...

CLEARWATER — After the Sarasota community rallied to buy a polio survivor a new leg brace, the company that provided it gave her yet another surprise. Kathi Coleman, a widowed polio survivor who ...

People come from around the world to see Dr. Lauro Halstead. He's one of only a handful of doctors in the U.S. who specializes in polio, and he... Polio Pioneer Helps Survivors Hold On To Strength Dr.

Polio hit its U.S. peak in the 1940s and 1950s, each year infecting thousands of people, most of them children. It caused paralysis and put a generation of children in metal leg braces, some in “iron ...

This article was originally published by Undark Magazine. Brad Fuller was a toddler when he contracted polio in 1952 and was sent to a hospital miles from his northeast Pennsylvania home. He stayed ...