Story of the author's childhood and his adjustment after contacting infantile paralysis.
The years 2011, 2012, and 2013 witnessed both significant developments and setbacks in global polio eradication efforts.
Surveys the history of polio, with information on causes, symptoms, diagnosis, treatment, complications, and the latest clinical research.
If you've never explored the polio story beyond the tales of crippled children and iron lungs, this book will be sure to surprise.
No Mean Feat: The Autobiography of Ann Gillanders
In the summer of 1952, Betsy sees her vacation fun overshadowed by the spreading polio epidemic, while her mother and other scientists work frantically to develop a vaccine for the crippling disease.
Discusses the cause of polio and the infection process, its history and search for a cure, and the course it took in the United States between 1900 and the early 1960s.
"The year was 1952 ... and in one moment that summer my life was changed forever. A dreaded virus was running rampant throughout the United States. Technically called infantile paralysis, this virus was more commonly known as polio.
It amazed me that they would imagine I would never walk again.
I Can Jump Puddles is Alan Marshall's story of his childhood - a happy world in which, despite his crippling poliomyelitis, he plays, climbs, fights, swims, rides and laughs.
Recounts the successful search of Jonas Salk for the vaccine that conquered polio.