Alem Mumuni contracted polio at the age of two in Ghana, a place where few people ever overcome the burdens of the crippling disease, but he has beaten them all, becoming a well-educated, world-class ...

As a baby, Nadina LaSpina contracted polio and couldn't walk following her illness. Years later, she had her legs amputated due to complications. Eventually, she and her family moved from Sicily to ...

Our recently updated website states: "Our Polio Network, managed by polio survivors and friends, is in service to bring support and information to polio survivors, their families, caregivers and ...

Leonard Kriegel was 11 years old when he became a cripple. That was how he wished to be known — not as “handicapped,” nor “disabled,” nor “differently abled,” nor by any other euphemism that, in his ...

It started with a headache. Bailey Sheehan, 7, told her mother she had pain in her head, neck and back. The aches turned into flu-like symptoms, which became so severe Bailey had trouble breathing.