The Scranton Times-Tribune

In Dunmore students’ interviews, polio survivors recount fear, lifelong battles

DUNMORE – It was a Friday in September 1953. Six-year-old Fred Garvey came home from first grade at Holy Rosary School with a wicked headache. That night, delirium set in as his fever soared. A doctor ...
Southeast Missourian

Polio survivors could be affected by disease decades later

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 ...
The Washington Post

One woman’s story of agony shows why childhood immunizations are so crucial

Ina Pinkney was only 18 months old when she contracted polio in 1944. In those days, there was such trepidation of the disease that, as Ina told me, children who were hospitalized were kept away from ...
Popular Science

Polio survivors in the US still struggle with the aftershocks of the disease decades later

This article was originally featured in Undark. Brad Fuller was a toddler when he contracted polio in 1952 and was sent to a hospital miles from his northeast Pennsylvania home. He stayed there for ...