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

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, ...

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.

One state’s effort to exempt young school-aged children from vaccines appears to have stalled as states contend with a ...

What are the benefits of the polio vaccine? The polio vaccine protects against poliomyelitis (polio), a highly infectious ...

Republican Delegate Keith Marple of Harrison County, 81, said he's witnessed people disabled by polio and living on iron lungs. Marple said he doesn't want to see West Virginia children hurt and ...

Far out. Poodle skirts, cat’s eye glasses, and iron lungs were all the rage the last time this roly-poly virus rocked around the clock. The advent of the polio vaccine decreased cases from a ...