Francis Ford Coppola Slams 'Absurd' Idea Trump Would 'Reverse Course' on Vaccines, Recalls 'Horror' of 10-Day Polio Ward Stay. Story by Stephanie Kaloi • 3w.

He said he stayed in the polio ward for 10 days. A doctor would later tell him he'd "be able to live a long life" but "always in a wheelchair." But Coppola said his father, ...

On Friday, Farrow reflected on her experience with polio and being separated from her parents while she was placed in the hospital’s polio ward. “I would see them once a week - thru the glass ...

The emergency polio ward at Haynes Memorial Hospital in Boston had patients lined up in “iron lung” respirators in August 1955, the same month columnist Inga contracted the disease as a child.

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 — just like her father said.

I contracted polio in August 1955 after receiving two of the three then-prescribed Salk polio-vaccine doses. ... I learned I was the only patient in that hospital’s polio ward not developing any ...

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. She had Virus X — just like her father said.

Regarding “Georgians living with polio say we should never forget” (AJC, March 30), I haven’t forgotten — not for the disease’s effects, but for my thankfulness for the Salk vaccine. I ...

Polio ravaged Southeast Missouri during the harrowing summer of 1949. Discover how the area grappled with the epidemic and the extraordinary efforts made to combat the disease. Thursday, November ...

Diagnosed with polio as a three-year-old in 1950, she was hospitalized, on a ward with other children with polio, in a place called the Industrial Home for Crippled Children.

Tragic tale of Wanda Lynn Ellis, a 2-year-old polio patient in an iron lung, transported to St. Louis in 1949. Despite hopes for recovery, her story ends in heartbreak a year later.