Some articles on polio, contracted, contracted polio:
... Life Comments Abbott, EleanorEleanor Abbott A retired schoolteacher who caught polio in 1948 ... hospital, she designed the game Candyland to entertain the children recuperating from polio ... Fox, MatthewMatthew Fox 1940 !born 1940 A former priest and theologian, Fox caught polio, aged 12, and spent nearly a year regaining the use of his legs ...
... She caught polio, aged 11, and was isolated in hospital for a while ... Albright later became a surgeon and helped with the international polio eradication effort through the World Health Assembly. 1956 A futsal player in his teens, Paulo Autuori contracted poliomyelitis and had to give up his career as a player ...
... A bout of polio at age 18 left him using a wheelchair ... Ducharme 1945–2004 A crusader for equality of disabled people, Ducharme contracted polio in 1953 ... HughHugh Gallagher 1933–2004 Author and disability rights advocate, Hugh Gallagher contracted polio at college and subsequently required a wheelchair due to lower-body paralysis ...
... He was crippled by polio in childhood ... He caught polio, aged 14, and was paralysed for several months ... He caught polio, aged four months, after receiving the oral polio vaccine ...
Famous quotes containing the words polio and/or contracted:
“If you think dope is for kicks and for thrills, you’re out of your mind. There are more kicks to be had in a good case of paralytic polio or by living in an iron lung. If you think you need stuff to play music or sing, you’re crazy. It can fix you so you can’t play nothing or sing nothing.”
—Billie Holiday (1915–1959)
“The man who, from the beginning of his life, has been bathed at length in the soft atmosphere of a woman, in the smell of her hands, of her bosom, of her knees, of her hair, of her supple and floating clothes, ... has contracted from this contact a tender skin and a distinct accent, a kind of androgyny without which the harshest and most masculine genius remains, as far as perfection in art is concerned, an incomplete being.”
—Charles Baudelaire (1821–1867)