smrteater

My wife's cousin 2 years older than you, contracted polio as a baby. Her's was no where as near as severe as yours. The vaccine was not available in time for her. In what year, at what age did you contract the disease?

Heard on the news yesterday that India declared itself polio free. Unfortunately it showed a hospital full of adults that were not well cared for.

I don't want to hijack a great AMA but for future discussion there is a controversy and conspiracy theory about contaminated polio vaccines. These were after /u/polio1955 should have had her vaccine.

Sorry deleted my question about the iron lung as you had answered it up above. Reply was to whether if the disease was confined to your lower body would you need an iron lung.