I know someone who died *this year* because his heart gave out after being weakened by polio when he was 5-yrs-old.
He spend the year prior to his death traveling to multiple states trying to find a doctor who knew how to treat the symptoms of Post-Polio Syndrome.
He spend the year prior to his death traveling to multiple states trying to find a doctor who knew how to treat the symptoms of Post-Polio Syndrome.
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Mollie Katzen
Wondering if anyone cheering on the upcoming admin was alive when the polio crisis happened in the early 1950s and when the vaccine first came out. I was barely old enough to take in the experience, but the image of my cousin in an iron lung is eternally burned into my memory.
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I was researching it and the more mild someone’s PPS is initially, the worse the rebound is in middle age.
AND THEY DON’T KNOW WHY!!!
And why don’t we know wtf is up with PPS? Because by the time it showed up we had a vaccine and thought it was a disease of the past.
https://my.clevelandclinic.org/health/diseases/24584-post-polio-syndrome