A woman who spent nearly 60 years of her life in an iron lung after being diagnosed with polio as a child died Wednesday after a power failure shut down the machine that kept her breathing, her family said
Polio cases have nearly doubled this year in the West African nation
of Nigeria as officials struggle to fight various natural strains of the
virus as well as an outbreak set off by the polio vaccine itself three
years ago
It began somewhere. In one throat. It had to, as every wave must begin with one molecule of water and every fire with a single spark. JO-BA!... Who was the first to cry it out that August night, and what made it leap to the next throat and the next until 54,000 people at Yankee Stadium were crying it as one?
The number of people who died worldwide from measles has fallen 60 percent since 1999, a decrease being called an incredible achievement in global public health.
John Prestwich was left paralyzed by polio, aged 17, in 1955. He has spent 50 years on an artificial ventilator, including seven in an iron lung. Here is his story:
A woman who spent nearly 60 years of her life in an iron lung after being diagnosed with polio as a child died Wednesday after a power failure shut down the machine that kept her breathing, her family said
Polio cases have nearly doubled this year in the West African nation
of Nigeria as officials struggle to fight various natural strains of the
virus as well as an outbreak set off by the polio vaccine itself three
years ago
It began somewhere. In one throat. It had to, as every wave must begin with one molecule of water and every fire with a single spark. JO-BA!... Who was the first to cry it out that August night, and what made it leap to the next throat and the next until 54,000 people at Yankee Stadium were crying it as one?
The number of people who died worldwide from measles has fallen 60 percent since 1999, a decrease being called an incredible achievement in global public health.
John Prestwich was left paralyzed by polio, aged 17, in 1955. He has spent 50 years on an artificial ventilator, including seven in an iron lung. Here is his story:
John Prestwich was diagnosed with polio at the age of 17 in 1955, which made him paralyzed from the chin down. He has spent 50 years on an artificial ventilator, including seven in an iron lung. Here is his story:
When polio was a scourge, it most frequently struck very young children, and today the vast majority of polio survivors are middle-aged or older. That's the direct result of a breakthrough announced 50 years ago Tuesday.
The polio outbreak that originated in northern Nigeria continues to infect new countries and threatens to become an epidemic across west and central Africa, health officials say.
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