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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...
San Angelo polio survivors share memories after new reports of virus
GoSanAngelo | Standard-Times via Yahoo News· 2 years agoBecause of recent news reports regarding the potential return of the polio virus, some due to recent...
10 photos of what the world looked like when Queen Elizabeth began her reign in 1952
INSIDER via Yahoo News· 2 years agoQueen Elizabeth delivers her first Christmas broadcast in 1952.Fox Photos/Hulton Archive/Getty...
‘It’s like having CPR 24/7’: Savoy woman shares polio survival story, urges vaccination
WCIA Champaign via Yahoo News· 2 months agoSAVOY, Ill. (WCIA) — Polio used to be one of the most feared diseases in the United States,...
'Got polio?' messaging underscores a vaccine campaign's success but creates false sense of security...
The Conversation via Yahoo News· 1 year agoFor much of the 20th century, Americans were used to seeing people bearing the signs of past polio...
Paul Alexander, polio survivor who lived in iron lung for 70 years, dies age 78
Live Science via Yahoo News· 2 months agoBlack and white image of a group of eight patients who are in iron lungs that are arranged in an...
Paul Alexander: ‘Man in the iron lung’ dies after living in tank for 70 years
The Independent US via AOL· 2 months agoA man who lived inside an ‘iron lung’ for seven decades after contracting polio as a child has died....
Paul Alexander spent seven decades in an iron lung. Polio couldn’t take his hope
USA TODAY via Yahoo News· 2 months agoHe had dreams of flying kites and playing baseball, the imaginations of a man whose physical...
‘Polio Paul,’ who spent most of the past 70 years in an iron lung, dies at 78
CNN via Yahoo News· 2 months agoPaul Alexander, who lived inside an iron lung for over 70 years and defied expectations by becoming...
Paul Alexander, known as the 'man in the iron lung' since polio diagnosis, dies at 78
Austin American-Statesman via Yahoo News· 2 months agoThe last man to live in an iron lung died in Dallas on Monday. Paul Alexander, 78, spent more than...