Some post-polio patients originally had mild symptoms. Others needed leg braces, calipers, or an iron lung. For the latter group, the reemergence of symptoms can feel like a deal gone sour.

Women also get menopausal, and then you think that you have menopausal symptoms, but you actually are full-blown polio. Le Roux explained that caliper (leg brace) costs between R30 000 and R40 000 ...

The eradication of polio in India is one of the ... Hashmi will undergo a surgery to fit his legs with calipers. The 20-year-old hopes he will finally be able to walk after.

Polio is returning to haunt survivors as ... the doctors and gradually learned to walk again by wearing a calliper on his right leg. Five years later he was able to cast off his heavy boot and ...

Ms Chadwick attended check-ups at Great Ormond Street Hospital in London throughout her childhood after an aunt recommended the polio clinic there. She was fitted with a caliper on her right leg ...

And those who grew up before the polio vaccine was available have memories of children returning to school in leg braces, requiring crutches, or using a wheelchair due to paralysis after a bout ...

more than a decade before the polio vaccine was invented by Jonas Salk. As her body grew, so did her affected leg, but it never quite caught up. Polio left her with a foot that was smaller than ...