Polio an Anesthesia with Selma Calmes, MD (PHI Video)

“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.”

The hospital was "overwhelmed" with polio patients. His parents were told to take him home, live in quarantine and do the best they could. Survivor Jim Smith

Ways to Avoid Respiratory Complications of Postpoliomyelitis, from PHI - John R. Bach, MD

Kat caught polio at 14 months old. She was on an iron lung and wore leg braces until she was 5.