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Post-polio syndrome haunts survivors of `40s and `50s epidemic.
Byline: Tracy Wheeler
AKRON, Ohio _ Summertime in the 1940s and `50s was a time of fear. Polio epidemics sprouted each year, leaving as many as 20,000 children a year in leg braces, wheelchairs or iron lungs.
The discovery of the Salk polio vaccine in 1955 quieted the epidemic. Those who survived were told they'd be OK, as their muscles regained function.
Now, however, America's 2 million polio survivors are finding out differently. It turns out beating polio in childhood does not necessarily equate to beating polio for a lifetime.
As polio survivors grow older _ most are now older than 50 _ many are finding that the arms or legs that they had built back to strength are beginning to weaken again. Their stamina is slipping. Overwhelming fatigue becomes a daily trend.
The diagnosis: post-polio syndrome.
"These are people who survived an illness that killed 15 percent of the people who got it,'" said Richard Bruno, director of the Post-Polio Institute in Englewood, N.J., and author of "The Polio Paradox." "They endured iron lungs and surgeries. They got rid of braces…
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