Polio was a disease that devastated the United States in the 1950s, but with concerted efforts towards vaccination, is now on the verge of eradication. With the disease a distant memory for most, it’s ...
KANSAS CITY, Mo. – Mona Randolph cannot breathe on her own for very long. The 81-year-old has lived in Kansas City most of her life. When she was 20, she contracted polio. She said she remembers the ...
Martha Lillard needed a large respirator called an iron lung to recover from polio, which she caught in 1953. She still uses a form of the device at nights. (Courtesy of Martha Lillard) On June 8, ...
Wanda Ellis, 3 (seen in the mirror), in an iron lung that helped her breathe. Nurses Jane Kolbay (left) and Adah Morse had to hand pump bellows when two generators failed. A November 1949 ...
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