Polio And Me

The year was 1943. A five year old boy wakes up. He cannot stand or hold an apple in his hand. The boy is rushed to his family doctor, diagnosed with polio, and taken from his mother's arms to the contagion ward at the county hospital. Despite decades of futile research, polio epidemics continued to paralyze and kill hundreds of thousands of adults and children well into the 1950's. Polio and Me provides a view of the past, present, and future--the saga of one boy's pain, fear, and loneliness--the long struggle to find a vaccine and effective treatments--the world-wide goal to eradicate the polio virus, and in some twenty-first century cancer research trials, the polio vaccine eliminated cancerous tumors.

• | Author: Ken Dalton
• | Publisher: Different Drummer Press
• | Publication Date: Oct 24, 2016
• | Number of Pages: 260 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Paperback/Biography & Autobiography
• | ISBN-10: 069279672X
• | ISBN-13: 9780692796726