A Summer Plague: Polio and Its Survivors by Tony Gould

A Summer Plague: Polio and Its Survivors

Tony Gould

384 pages missing pub info (editions)

nonfiction health history science informative medium-paced
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Polio--often called the "summer plague"--struck hundreds of thousands of children around the world between its emergence as an epidemic disease in 1916 to its cure in the 1950s. Today, images of children with crutches and leg braces or encased to ...

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