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 ...
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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