Polio survivors contend with emergence of new disabilities decades after being treated for the disease. Source: Polio survivors face new disability – SciDev.Net South-East Asia & Pacific
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Memorial Dedicated to FDR’s Disability Will Feature Personal Tributes to People with Disabilities – Disabled World
Sculpture of President Franklin D. Roosevelt greeting a young girl who is also disabled, will be the first memorial dedicated to FDR disability Source: Memorial Dedicated to FDR’s Disability Will Feature Personal Tributes to People with Disabilities – Disabled World Published 2016-07-05 Author: Marc Diamond, Chair, FDR Hope Memorial Committee – Contact: fdrhopememorial.org Quote: “How […]
Polio Pioneer Helps Survivors Hold On To Strength : NPR
People come from around the world to see Dr. Lauro Halstead. He’s one of only a handful of doctors in the U.S. who specializes in polio, and he was one of the first to spread the word about post-polio syndrome, a condition that affects polio survivors. Halstead has special insight into the challenges of the […]
Polio struck terror in Houston and across the nation – Houston Chronicle
In response to deadly public health crisis, community demanded ‘Victory Over Polio’ The polio epidemic made 1943 to 1954 a frightening decade in the Houston area, but it also begot TIRR Memorial Hermann, a world-renowned rehabilitation hospital, as well as medical innovation, a spirit of community unity and a health museum that endures to this […]
What you don’t know about the campaign to end polio | My Rotary
Source: What you don’t know about the campaign to end polio | My Rotary From the July 2016 issue of The Rotarian When was the last time there was polio in Europe? If you guessed 2002, the year the region was certified polio-free, you were wrong. The last time polio affected a child in Europe […]
Perlman: Trump gesture about disabled reporter ‘terrible’ | U.S. News | US News
JERUSALEM (AP) — Violinist Itzhak Perlman, a longtime advocate for the disabled, is still upset over Donald Trump’s derisive behavior toward a disabled reporter last fall and says he’ll support Hillary Clinton in November’s election. Source: Perlman: Trump gesture about disabled reporter ‘terrible’ | U.S. News | US News By JOSEF FEDERMAN, Associated Press JERUSALEM […]
Post Polio Syndrome: What is it, and why does it matter? – The Hippocratic Post
Poliomyelitis, or Polio, as it is more commonly known, is one of the world’s best known diseases. Having famously been contracted by Frida Kahlo, Neil Young and even Franklin Roosevelt, Polio was endemic throughout much of the 20th Century. However, one of the most successful vaccination campaigns in history has all but seen off Polio, […]
European Polio Union and PSA RAG join forces [Press Release]
Press Release by EPU/RAG on co-operation to assist Polio Survivors Poliomyelitis is a disease that is on the edge of eradication in the world thanks to the combined efforts of Rotary International, the World Health Organization, UNICEF, Centers for Disease Control (CDC) and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation (& other generous funders), together with […]
Polio Type 2 eradicated
The members of the Global Commission for the Certification of Polio Eradication certify that the world has been eradicated of polio virus type 2!
Information and Technical Assistance on the Americans with Disabilities Act
Link: http://www.ada.gov/ada_intro.htm Introduction to the ADA The Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) was signed into law on July 26, 1990, by President George H.W. Bush. The ADA is one of America’s most comprehensive pieces of civil rights legislation that prohibits discrimination and guarantees that people with disabilities have the same opportunities as everyone else to […]