Hollywood director Francis Ford Coppola recalls the "horror" of surviving childhood polio amid questions about the future of its vaccine.

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 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 ...

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.

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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.

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.

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.

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

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.