If you want to understand the impact of polio — if you want to comprehend the heartbreak polio victims feel about the return of infantile paralysis — if you want to sense the bewilderment that polio ...

It's Friday. And here on MORNING EDITION, that means it's time for StoryCorps. In 1950, Shirley Duhart got polio. She was only 2 years old at the time. And although she struggled to walk, shoes became ...

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 ...

Shirley Duhart was two years old when she got polio in 1950. She talks to her doctor, Dale Strausserher, about her love of shoes. Though she struggled to walk, shoes became very important to her. It's ...