Word: polio
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Birdsall Sweet was just going into the last half of the eighth grade in Beacon, N.Y. But in September, husky, athletic Birdsall suddenly fell ill. After five days he was admitted to a hospital in Poughkeepsie. Like many another youngster in the epidemic year of 1931, Birdsall Sweet had polio...
...years went by there was nothing more that anyone could do. Polio would still not release him from its deadly grip. A spinal curvature developed and gradually worsened. The ravages of kidney stones sapped his disease-ridden body. His strength was almost gone. Last week, after Birdsall Sweet, 32, was finally released from 18 years and seven months in his iron lung, Dr. Smith performed his last, sad service. On the death certificate he wrote: "Acute nephritis due to chronic kidney stones due to poliomyelitis...
...Voted to let Sister Kenny, the Australian nurse who brought a new treatment for polio to the U.S., enter and leave the country whenever she wants to without a passport, immigration visa, or other required documents of all aliens entering the U.S. The privilege had never before been extended to anyone. The measure, already approved by the Senate, was the Congress' way of saluting Sister Kenny for her work and making it easier for her to continue...
...list of callers-during the week dozens of old friends from Congress dropped in at the office to shake hands and chat. One day he posed for photographs with five polio-stricken children who will tour the country on behalf of the March of Dimes campaign. The kids were chirpy as crickets. He seemed both pleased and honored when five-year-old Linda Sue Brown of San Antonio took to tweaking his right ear during the proceedings...
...Every year thousands of U.S. infants die of epidemic diarrhea. A 1944 outbreak in Texas killed 1,372 - more than the nation's death toll that year from polio...