poliomyelitis

When Thembi wins the heart of Mduduzi everyone agrees that this is a match made in heaven. Suddenly, at their engagement party, disaster strikes.

Examines the physical and emotional traumas experienced by middle-aged polio survivors and their struggles with fatigue, leg and arm weakness, muscle, joint, and neck pain, and insomnia, and offers treatment to stop the progression of Post-Polio Sequelae.

Examines the personal stories of the men and women who suffered from acute polio in the 1940s and 1950s and live with the disease's crippling consequences.

Presents a comprehensive survey of the polio epidemic of the 1950s and the discovery of the Salk and Sabin vaccines, and describes the devastating results of the disease, methods of treatment, fund-raising efforts, and more.

Presents a comprehensive study of Jonas Salk and his years of research in the 1950s on finding a vaccine for Infantile Paralysis, and discusses the controversy that surrounded his work and experiments.

Christy Bannister, a fourteen-year-old boy, forms a unique friendship with a twenty-three-year-old quadriplegic who lives in an iron lung and teaches Christy some important lessons about life and love.

Ann Fay is concerned about her family after she returns from the polio hospital and discovers that her father is changed after fighting in World War II, but the opportunity to receive treatment in Georgia offers her comfort, until she gets news that her family is getting worse.

Grant, Weng-Ho, and Seve go on a field trip to Warm Springs, Georgia, to visit the home of President Franklin Roosevelt and learn about FDR, polio, and a Creek Indian legend.

Presents a profile of twentieth-century scientist Jonas Salk, developer of the polio vaccine, discussing his childhood in New York, his education, and the significance of his vaccine and other research in medical science.

Describes early evidence of polio, the first epidemics, scientific research and treatments, vaccines, the campaign to eradicate the disease.