KANSAS CITY, Mo. -- Sharon McKinney was only 6 years old when she began complaining about a fever and a headache. The diagnosis was polio. After spending several months in a hospital in 1948, she ...
A woman stands next to a car with a large sign reading "FREE POLIO SHOTS HERE" as a group of children and adults gather nearby on a city sidewalk. Before vaccines and public health triumphs, polio was ...
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 ...
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