List of polio survivors - Wikipedia

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Uncontested diagnosis [ edit] Acting [ edit]. Actress Marion Davies contracted polio as an adult. Actors Donald Sutherland (above) and Alan Alda both... Business [ edit]. Toymaker Margarete Steiff was paralysed as an infant. An entrepreneur and founder of …

Famous People Who Have/Had Polio

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Neil Young. (Rock Singer-Songwriter Famous As The 'Godfather of Grunge') 48 26 Listed …

Celebrities Who Had Polio: Mia Farrow, Joni Mitchell, Neil

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Polio and Famous People Who Survived It - American Masters

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Famous Polio Survivors Among the famous survivors of polio are President Franklin D. Roosevelt, who contracted polio in 1921 at the age of 39 and used a wheelchair …

This polio survivor is one of the last still using an iron lung ...

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Martha Lillard had just turned 5 years old when polio incapacitated her. She still uses a form of the ventilator that saved her life as a child — though now she worries …

Famous People Who Had and Have Polio | Disabled World

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Famous People Who Had and Have Polio Alan Alda Alan Toy Ann Adams Arthur C. Clarke Arthur Guyton Ben Bradlee Bhagwat Subramanya Chandrasekhar - …

Polio - Polio through history | Britannica

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In 1931 two Australian researchers, Frank Macfarlane Burnet and Jean Macnamara, using immunologic techniques, were able to identify the different serotypes of the poliovirus. …

History of polio: Outbreaks and vaccine timeline

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Dr. Thomas Magath sits next to the first shipment of the polio vaccine at Mayo Clinic in 1955. 1961 Dr. Albert B. Sabin develops a second polio vaccine that is licensed in the U.S. A third polio vaccine will be licensed …

Polio: a 20th century epidemic | Science Museum

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The epidemic rise of polio led to renewed research into the disease and in 1908, Karl Landsteiner and Erwin Popper determined that polio was a viral infection. It was not until 1953 that the poliovirus that …

Whatever Happened to Polio | National Museum of American History

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On April 12, 1955, it was announced that Jonas Salk, using March of Dimes donations from millions of people, had developed a vaccine to prevent polio. In the United States, polio …