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 ...
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 ...
A child with polio learning to walk with crutches at Queen Mary's Hospital in London, England in 1947. Credit - George Konig—Keystone Features/Getty Images Last month it was reported that Robert F.
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