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...sheer terror that was once connected to the word polio. The incidence of the disease had risen sharply in the early part of this century, and every year brought the threat of another outbreak. Parents were haunted by the stories of children stricken suddenly by the telltale cramps and fever. Public swimming pools were deserted for fear of contagion. And year after year polio delivered thousands of people into hospitals and wheelchairs, or into the nightmarish canisters called iron lungs. Or into the grave. In the worst year of epidemic, 1952, when nearly 58,000 cases were reported...
Perkins concluded with a prayer: "O Lord, support us all the day long until the evening ...comes, When the fever of life is over, and our work is done, then in Thy name, grant us a safe lodging and a holy rest and peace at the last. Amen...
Bragg grew up on a street of brownstones knownlocally as Striver's Row. The street, which wasfeatured in the movie "Jungle Fever," is ahistoric haven for upper-middle-class Blackprofessional households; Booker T. Washington IVis rumored to live there...
...plague city of Kikwit. The pallbearers wore green gowns, heavy boots, plastic goggles and white helmets as they pushed a rickety stretcher over the potholes on the road from the main hospital to the Cathedral of St. Francois Xavier. She was the fourth sister to die of the fever, and by this time the nuns had learned to take no chances...
...operation on a man named Kimfumu last month, when doctors thought they were just dealing with a perforated ulcer. When they opened him up, however, his gut was dissolving. By the time he died two days later of extensive hemorrhaging, Sister Floralba was already running a high fever. She was treated at the hospital, but when her condition worsened, three of her best friends -- Sister Dinarosa, Sister Clarangela Ghilardi, 64, and Sister Danielangela Sorti, 47 -- put her in the back of their four-wheel drive car and drove her 50 miles west to the clinic in the town of Mosango...