Back then, fear and doubt about polio were rampant. But the nation didn’t dwell on problems. We did what Americans always do — focused on solutions.

To Greg, Glad you’re getting well so fast.’ ...

I’m going to let my grandfather, Walter Krueger, take my history column this week. After graduating from NDSU, Walt and his ...

The 1950s was a turning point for polio. Amid deadly outbreaks, Jonas Salk developed a vaccine that saved countless lives ...

I was given those shots when I was in the hospital with polio. I was in a polio ward with probably 20 kids. Our lungs were lined up and down the room. Over the two years that I was in the hospital ...

To placate her, he said she had a new virus called “Virus X.” She found it odd, then, that she was placed in the polio ward with other children. She told the nurse she didn’t have polio.

To placate her, he said she had a new virus called “Virus X.” She found it odd, then, that she was placed in the polio ward. She told the nurse she didn’t have polio. She had Virus X ...

After undergoing two weeks of hospital treatment and two months of bed rest, I learned I was the only patient in that hospital’s polio ward not developing any paralysis. The vaccine allowed me a ...

To placate her, he said she had a new virus called “Virus X.” She found it odd, then, that she was placed in the polio ward with other children. She told the nurse she didn’t have polio.

To placate her, he said she had a new virus called “Virus X.” She found it odd, then, that she was placed in the polio ward with other children. She told the nurse she didn’t have polio.