Photos: The history of polio and the vaccines that nearly eradicated it
Nikki Rachelson remembers waking up in the middle of the night one summer and knowing something was wrong. It was Aug. 6, 1955, in Boston, and her head was pounding. Her body ached.
She spent six months in the hospital often thinking she might die. She never regained full control of her legs. That hardly slowed her down. And she reveled in being able to drive.Rachelson with her daughters in Greeley, Pa., in the early 1970s.Long considered a virus of the past in most countries, polio is charting an ominous return, cropping up in sewage from Britain to Jerusalem and even paralyzing one man in Rockland County, N.Y., this summer.
Before the vaccine came, polio infection was a dreaded specter. In the United States, 20,000 people were paralyzed each year, including a president.
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