Artscape CEO, Marlene le Roux is making her voice heard bringing a much-needed spotlight to the challenges facing post-polio sufferers worldwide. March 26 is recognised worldwide by post-polio ...
Many Georgians who caught polio in the 1950s as children survived and led fulfilling lives despite their injuries, but in their later years, they experience a return of the pains and deficits that ...
This 1960 photograph depicts a nurse caring for a patient of a Rhode Island polio epidemic inside an Emerson respirator, also referred to as an iron lung. Devices like these were used by polio ...