A Study Seeking Users of Negative Pressure Ventilation by

Norma M. Braun, MD

We are grateful to the Rotary Foundation and their partners in the GPEI for their unwavering determination to bring an end to this terrible disease.

The book reminded me that “we all get the same vaccines and that you shouldn’t be scared to get them. We get them to protect ourselves and to protect others who cannot get the vaccines.”

By Avery and Ariana

Have you ever met a kid who said they wanted to make the world a better place? Have you ever said that? Maybe you have qualities like Jonas Salk! Jonas was a kind and curious kid. He was a dreamer; a believer and he had GRIT.

By Avery and Ariana

The author’s timely and captivating The Polio Pioneer: Dr. Jonas Salk and the Polio Vaccine, recounts the story of Dr. Salk’s determination to produce a safe polio vaccine during the heights of the 1940s and 50s polio pandemic in the US.

By Pamela Sergey

Have you ever asked yourself if polio, in a curious way, enriched your life? Unexpected Journey: A Physician’s Life in the Shadow of Polio recounts Dr. Lauro Halstead’s personal quest to answer this question.

By Pamela Sergey

These Philadelphia-area polio survivors continue to suffer from a disease thought to be long gone.

“The book explains how shots/vaccines show your immune system what different germs and viruses look like and how your immune system can get rid of the germs before they make you sick. The book tries to help you feel better about having to get these vaccines.”

By Avery and Ariana

I am not sick. I am broken. But I am happy to be alive as long as I can paint.

By Pamela Sergey