At the age of 14 she contracted polio and was put into an isolation ward.

He stayed only two years, as she contracted polio - from which she made a remarkable recovery - and needed treatment nearer home.

It was there that he contracted polio, which delayed his return home for three months.

In 1988, 350,000 people in 125 countries across six continents contracted polio.

His boundless optimism and immunity to self-doubt belie the fact that he contracted polio through a childhood vaccination and has had a withered leg ever since.

Or, in modern parlance, that they 'identify as' polio survivors and thus vaccination programmes to eradicate the disease are an affront to their unique selves.

She wrote parts of the magazine, but preferred to publish articles in the words of polio survivors themselves.

It runs a telephone and e-mail answer-line during business hours, responding to requests from polio survivors, clinicians, researchers, and journalists.

Today, many polio survivors with permanent respiratory paralysis use modern jacket-type negative-pressure ventilators worn over the chest and abdomen.

And it has been working with other organizations to include rehabilitation for polio survivors in the current program for the worldwide eradication of polio.

First she avoided a polio vaccination at school.

He considers all possibilities, and rejects totally the early suggestion that mass polio vaccination campaigns first spread the virus.

Polio vaccination was not required for pilgrims.

It's a film with a serious message about polio vaccination.