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Polio Photos
 
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Warning: Some of these photos are quite graphic.
 
Hospital respiratory ward in Los Angeles, 1952
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Courtesy of Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Child with a severely deformed leg due to polio
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Courtesy of World Health Organization
Young man with a withered leg due to polio
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Child with polio, Rhode Island polio epidemic, 1960
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Courtesy of Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Patient in iron lung, Rhode Island polio epidemic, 1960
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Courtesy of Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Two children with polio receiving physical therapy
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Courtesy of Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Images like this were used to encourage polio vaccination
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Courtesy of Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Aerial view of a crowd awaiting polio immunization, San Antonio, 1962
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Courtesy of Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Child with sequelae of polio. Quote from Dr. Harry Hull
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Courtesy of Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Negative stain image of the polio virus
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Courtesy of Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Patients whose respiratory muscles were affected were placed in an "iron lung" machine to enable them to breathe
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 Courtesy of World Health Organization
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This patient sustained upper extremity paralysis due to the due to polio caused by the poliovirus.
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Courtesy Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
Cheshire Home for Handicapped Children, Freetown, Sierra Leone
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Courtesy of World Health Organization
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Two children with polio, Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), Kisangani
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Cheshire Home for Handicapped Children, Menagesha, 25 Km from Addis Ababa
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Courtesy of World Health Organization
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Children with polio, Freetown, Sierra Leone
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Courtesy of World Health Organization
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Polio has taken a visible toll in countries like Sierra Leone.
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Courtesy of World Health Organization
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This child is one of a set of twins, both paralysed by polio. Community in the Sibiti forest, Congo.
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Courtesy of World Health Organization and S. Torfinn
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Young woman with polio
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Courtesy of World Health Organization
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Boys with polio
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Courtesy of World Health Organization
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The wild poliovirus usually paralyses children under five years old.
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Boy with polio, Menagesha, at the Cheshire Home for Handicapped Children
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Courtesy of World Health Organization
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Boy with paralysis from polio infection
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Courtesy of World Health Organization (WHO) Regional Office for Europe
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Orphan girl with polio, Kenya
Photographer: James Li, MD
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Courtesy of Remote Medicine
Boy with polio and handmade braces, Kenya
Photographer: James Li, MD
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Courtesy of Remote Medicine
 
This page was updated on April 13, 2021.
This page was reviewed on April 13, 2021.
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