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Children’s book "Blinky, Less Light" ISBN 9780892254712 Dianne Odell (February 13, 1947 [ 1 ] – May 28, 2008) was a Tennessee woman who spent most of her life in an iron lung . [ 2 ] She contracted bulbospinal polio at age 3 in 1950 and was confined to an iron lung for the rest of her life.
In April 1955, over 400,000 children received the improperly prepared vaccines. The mistake led to 260 cases of polio-based paralysis and several deaths, according to the National Institutes of ...
Name Life Comments Alan Alda: born 1936: Actor who played Hawkeye Pierce in the television series M*A*S*H.Alda contracted polio at age seven, during an epidemic. His parents administered a painful treatment, developed by Sister Elizabeth Kenny, in which hot woollen blankets were applied to the limbs and the muscles were stretched by massage.
Naomi Rogers, Polio Wars: Sister Kenny and The Golden Age of American Medicine (Oxford University Press, N.Y. 2014) Wade Alexander, Sister Elizabeth Kenny: Maverick Heroine of The Polio Treatment Controversy, (Greystone Press, San Luis Obispo CA 2012). Note: This is an unredacted edition which includes content not in the Outback Press/CQU 2003 ...
In 1923 she contracted polio and was confined to a cast for six months. [2] The cast deformed her body and face which her opponents used against her. She married Charles Johnston and they moved to Wadsworth briefly, later buying property along the Truckee River near Painted Rock exit along I80. They named it the "Double Lazy Heart Ranch".
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The number of polio cases globally has dropped by more than 99% since the global effort to wipe out the disease led by the World Health Organization and others began in 1988.
[2] [3] He contracted polio at the age of six and was paralyzed for life, only able to move his head, neck, and mouth. [4] [5] [6] During a major U.S. outbreak of polio in the early 1950s, hundreds of children around Dallas, Texas, including Alexander, were taken to Parkland Hospital. There, children were treated in a ward of iron lungs.