Rotarians around the world are on a common mission. Eradicate Polio! Polio is a terrible disease affecting mostly children.

The Republican senator’s childhood bout with the disease has informed his ardent support for vaccines amid increasing ...

by the nation’s most famous polio victim, President Franklin D. Roosevelt. He often speaks of his mother’s tenacity and love as the reason for his recovery. “I was under intense observation ...

Some people may have thought so in 1921, but these days even a TV audience has heard that polio is caused by a virus. Troubles & Perquisite. As Roosevelt recovers and tries to learn to walk ...

FDR’s own history with polio led to him being confined to a wheelchair and contributed to his death at age 63. Based on Roosevelt’s work with the March of Dimes, he was a natural choice for ...

The concerned citizens could include a member of Roosevelt’s family, a person who suffered from polio, a historian who has written a biography of FDR, an activist who works on behalf of rights ...

An curved arrow pointing right. It is no secret now that Franklin D. Roosevelt had the unique challenge of hiding his crippling disease of what was believed to be polio throughout his terms as ...

This spring marks 73 years since the death of one of America's iconic presidents. Franklin Delano Roosevelt is renowned as the president the country through two of the greatest crises of the 20th ...

The disease, whose early symptoms are like the flu, struck mostly children, although adults, including Franklin Roosevelt ... types to protect against all polio. One of the hardest things about ...