Polio hit its U.S. peak in the 1940s and 1950s, each year infecting thousands of people, most of them children. It caused paralysis and put a generation of children in metal leg braces, some in “iron ...

ANN ARBOR, MI - Liina Paasuke cannot remember a time without leg braces. A polio survivor from a young age, all her memories consist of walking with leg and back braces and crutches. The experience ...

For many Memorial Day marks the unofficial beginning of summer but a century ago it ushered in a far less popular time — "polio season." Many years between the early 1990s and mid-1950s saw major ...