Polio

In this article, Riazat Butt discuses the suspension of polio vaccination campaigns in Afghanistan by the Taliban. Afghanistan and Pakistan are the only two countries in the world where polio has not been contained and this decision could have worldwide implications.

In this article, author Meredith Melnick discusses the discourse surrounding vaccines and the anti-vaccine movement spreading in the United States. She talks about the fear that people have about vaccinating their children and how skepticism of vaccines can add to the conversation surrounding…

This image shows representations of different ways that awareness around polio was spread in the United States.

This graph shows the reported polio cases and deaths in the United States from 1910 to 2022. 

In this photograph, nurses are learning how to use a negative pressure ventilator. These ventilators enabled a person to breathe when normal muscle control had been lost or the work of breathing exceeded the person's ability.

In this letter from Franklin D. Roosevelt to his doctor in 1924, Roosevelt writes about his polio attack and his symptoms leading up to the attack. He also discusses his treatment and his personal do's and dont's for treating his disease.

<p><span class="deck">Have historians underestimated the importance of Roosevelt’s 24-year struggle with the disease that made him a paraplegic?</span></p>

<p><span class="deck">Polio’s legacy to those who survived it includes uncommon stamina and courage and one grim new joke.</span></p>

<p><span class="deck">The conquest of polio</span></p>