Janice’s Story
“We were healthy, rambunctious kids, our parents abided by every single public health recommendation to try and protect us and yet, when a virus wants to hit, it’s going to hit everywhere it wants to.”
Jim: In Our Own Words
The hospital was "overwhelmed" with polio patients. His parents were told to take him home, live in quarantine and do the best they could.
Ways to Avoid Respiratory Complications with Polio and Post-Polio Syndrome - John R. Bach, MD
Ways to Avoid Respiratory Complications of Postpoliomyelitis, from PHI - John R. Bach, MD
Kat: In Our Own Words
Kat caught polio at 14 months old. She was on an iron lung and wore leg braces until she was 5.
May: In Our Own Words
Born in Taiwan, May contracted polio when she was barely 1. As May and her husband BOTH struggle with Post-Polio Syndrome differently, she can see clearly how different the late effects of polio can be for others.