During the summers of the years after World War II, mothers dreaded fever in a child because these were the worst years of ...

The iron lung, conceptualized in the late 1920s, was most notably the first line of defense against polio during the epidemics that occurred between 1948 to 1955. The device saved the lives of ...

I contracted polio in 1953 and was put into a contagion ward. My cousin also had polio and it attacked his lungs. He was put in an iron lung, and it was (a) death sentence and he lived for three years ...

Polio ravaged human bodies for hundreds of years, but the misery began to wane 70 years ago when two polio vaccines developed in the U.S. halted the virus’ spread.

A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens documents your change from an old, self-centered miser to a person concerned with ...

Iron Lung channeled this chest-pounding sensation into an aural assault that caught the ears of San Francisco label Enterruption, who released the duo's mutant fusion of grindcore, powerviolence, ...

On an August morning in 1949, when I was six, I got out of bed and collapsed on the floor. By evening, I was paralyzed from the neck down and in an iron lung. I spent the next five months in a polio ...