A child with polio learning to walk with crutches at Queen Mary's Hospital in London, England in 1947. Credit - George Konig—Keystone Features/Getty Images Last month it was reported that Robert F.

Polio hit its U.S. peak in the 1940s and 1950s, each year infecting thousands of people, most of them children. It caused paralysis and put a generation of children in metal leg braces, some in “iron ...

KANSAS CITY, Mo. -- Sharon McKinney was only 6 years old when she began complaining about a fever and a headache. The diagnosis was polio. After spending several months in a hospital in 1948, she ...