Deborah Cunningham 1945-2015
Deborah served as activist, mentor, friend, sister and boss to many in Memphis and across the country.
‘I woke up and I couldn’t walk’: This is the polio that should become just a memory
At the age of four, I quickly had to come to terms with the devastating reality of contracting polio. I was born in Israel in 1945, but it would be another decade before the country began a national immunization program.
Seattle Polio Survivor Describes Lasting Impact of Disease (Podcast)
Ross Reynolds speaks with polio survivor and post-polio syndrome sufferer Kathy Parrish about her experience as a child with polio and the lasting impacts of the disease.
How Polio and Other Struggles Shaped the Life of Former CBC Producer Peter Kavanagh
Peter Kavanagh is recalling a time four decades past. Stricken with paralytic poliomyelitis during the epidemic of 1953, he has lived a physical life of what he calls “really bad odds”
Fighting For My Life
I grew up proud to be a polio survivor, blissfully unaware of the stigma many people attach to paralysis and deformity.
PPS - The Australian Experience - Physiotherapy (Video)
Physiotherapy - The Australian Experience (Video)
Polio Survivor And Doctor Chooses New Path. An Interview with Lauro Halstead, MD
“I think an important element for any young person is the whole concept of resilience and perseverance. I mean, no one’s life is free of problems, of challenges, of confrontations.” Lauro Halstead