Jan. 31, 2011— -- In the Manhattan double townhouse where President Franklin Delano Roosevelt recuperated from polio in the summer of 1921, billionaire Bill Gates on Monday began the latest ...
Sixty years ago, polio was one of the most feared diseases in the U.S. As the weather warmed up each year, panic over polio intensified. Late summer was dubbed "polio season." Public swimming pools ...
User-Created Clip by JKoning June 19, 2017 2017-06-17T13:06:26-04:00https://images.c-span.org/Files/df3/20170617130752003_hd.jpgCurator Herman Eberhardt gave a tour ...
It was like a horror movie. The invisible polio virus would strike, leaving young children on crutches, in wheelchairs or in a dreaded “iron lung” ventilator. Each summer, the fear was so great that ...
DALLAS - Franklin D. Roosevelt may not have had polio at all, but a paralyzing disease called Guillain-Barre syndrome, Texas researchers say in a study that calls into question all the history books ...
Virus and host. Infection ; Symptoms ; Diagnosis ; "To keep up his courage" -- "He's through." "The psychological factor is paramount" ; "Perfectly definite in my determination" ; "A tower of blocks" ...