Three Spokane children died of “infantile paralysis,” also known as polio. All of the children were in good health until they began complaining of sore throats. Then the paralysis quickly ...

In the summers of 1934 and 1935, more than 300 women nurses in Los Angeles County Hospital fell ill with a mysterious, hideously painful disease.* A few more became ill in 1936 and 1937. The ...

First time that a doctor recognized infantile paralysis as a separate disease was in England in 1784. First known case in the U.S. was in 1841. Vermont had the first U.S. epidemic, with 132 cases ...