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‘Polio Paul’ Alexander’s sad final days revealed as he battled COVID inside iron lung — before death...
NY Post via Yahoo News· 3 months ago"Polio Paul" Alexander, who died Monday at 78, spent his final days battling COVID while struggling...
Paul Alexander spent seven decades in an iron lung. Polio couldn’t take his hope
USA TODAY via Yahoo News· 3 months agoHe had dreams of flying kites and playing baseball, the imaginations of a man whose physical...
What is polio and what happened the last time there was an epidemic in the UK?
Press Association News via AOL· 2 years agoDespite eradication in recent years, the polio virus is a deadly illness which wreaked havoc in the...
Man Who Lived in an Iron Lung Since 1953 Dies After Covid Diagnosis
Gizmodo via Yahoo News· 3 months agoPaul Alexander, a Dallas man who’s lived in an iron lung since contracting polio at the age of six,...
Fears of a polio resurgence in the US have health officials on high alert – a virologist explains...
The Conversation via Yahoo News· 2 years agoCritical-care patients in the emergency polio ward at Haynes Memorial Hospital in Boston in August...
It’s come to this: The anti-vax movement is now after your dog
Salon via Yahoo News· 9 months agoDog getting vaccine from vet Getty Images/Peter Dazeley Here we are, coming up on three years of...
In Dunmore students' interviews, polio survivors recount fear, lifelong battles
The Times-Tribune, Scranton, Pa. via Yahoo News· 8 months agoOct. 13—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 ...
Remembering celebrated journalist, vaccine advocate Pam Henry
The Oklahoman via Yahoo News· 2 years agoMy affinity for vaccines started from having roomed my freshman year at the University of Oklahoma with Pam Henry, the last poster child for the 1959 March of Dimes campaign against polio.
A world of Girl Scouts Monday at the Village at Heritage Point
The Dominion Post, Morgantown, W.Va. via Yahoo News· 2 months agoMar. 25—Something wondrous happened Monday morning in the Great Room at the Village at Heritage Point. Something that made the years melt — and that collection of grandmothers and great-grandmothers ...
