My mother, Cathryn Robertson Forrester, had polio. As a child in the 1930s, she was living in New York when she was struck with polio at the age of six. As a result, she suffered partial paralysis of ...

In the 1940s and 1950s, hospital wards in the U.S. were filled with iron lungs helping many children, and some adults, who had polio breathe and stay alive. The use of polio vaccines have helped make ...