We need more than just Mitch McConnell speaking out in favor of the polio vaccine. McConnell is one of hundreds of thousands ...

In its original form, the virus survives in just two countries. But a type linked to an oral vaccine used in other nations ...

“I was in leg braces and had to learn to walk all over ... In her early 40s, Lane was diagnosed with post-polio syndrome, which afflicts between 25% and 40% of childhood polio survivors.

Thanks to successful vaccination programs across the globe, most of the world had been declared polio-free by the 2020s.

And those who grew up before the polio vaccine was available have memories of children returning to school in leg braces ... late effects of polio, called post-polio syndrome.

Then, they both developed post-polio syndrome in late adulthood when ... Are we really going to be taken back to those days of iron lungs and leg braces? Cheryl Long, Arcadia ...

“I was in leg braces and had to learn to walk all over ... In her early 40s, Lane was diagnosed with post-polio syndrome, which afflicts between 25% and 40% of childhood polio survivors.

"I was in leg braces and had to learn to walk all over ... In her early 40s, Lane was diagnosed with post-polio syndrome, which afflicts between 25% and 40% of childhood polio survivors.