As I compile the Out of the Past, I read the daily news published in the Southeast Missourian for 25, 50, 75 and 100 years ago. It's a process I've followed for most of the years I've worked at the ...

My mother survived polio in 1949, but it paralyzed both her legs and one arm and she later died from its complications. No wonder she was such an advocate for… I was 1 year old in 1949 when polio ...

To the editor: My mother contracted polio in 1949. I think about what her life and that of thousands of other polio victims would be like if the polio vaccine had come into use before 1955. (“A new ...

Polio is a highly contagious virus that attacks the nervous system. Historically, the effects of polio were varied depending on an individual's susceptibility to polio, but thousands of people became ...

In July 1949, with a polio epidemic under way, Springfield officials ordered children under 16 years old into quarantine – confined, with few exceptions, to their own backyards. Hours later, ...

Dr. Jonas Salk, the scientist who discovered the polio vaccine, administers an injection to an unidentified boy at a Pittsburgh elementary school in 1954. (AP) Perspective by Valerie Strauss Larry ...

Esther Waters Maron of St. Joseph has lived through a world war and nursed children back to health during Champaign-Urbana’s alarming polio outbreak in 1949. And although she’s nearly 96 years old and ...

The single entry on 29 October in my dad's 1949 diary indicates that I had contracted polio in one of its periodic epidemics. I was to spend the best part of my fourth year in Treloar's Orthopaedic ...