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

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

Within 15 days, polio ravaged her body, partially paralyzing her limbs and weakening her neck. She was moved to the D.T.

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

It would fall to Ward to test whether the polio vaccine had worked in the Watson Home children. First, a test tube was seeded with healthy monkey cells. Serum from the blood of Watson children who ...

Coppola, now 85, painted a bleak picture of his time in a polio ward. “I remember the kids in the iron lungs who you could see their faces on mirrors, and they were all crying for their parents.

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.

She came home with a high temperature, feeling very ill. The next morning, her legs gave out when she tried to get out of bed. By that evening, she was ...