Carol was only two when she had the "summer flu“. She got better on her own, no doctor was ever called. Finally, at 90 years of age, her mother revealed that deep down, they always knew it was polio.

“We were healthy, rambunctious kids, our parents abided by every single public health recommendation to try and protect us and yet, when a virus wants to hit, it’s going to hit everywhere it wants to.”

The hospital was "overwhelmed" with polio patients. His parents were told to take him home, live in quarantine and do the best they could.

Kat caught polio at 14 months old. She was on an iron lung and wore leg braces until she was 5.

Born in Taiwan, May contracted polio when she was barely 1. As May and her husband BOTH struggle with Post-Polio Syndrome differently, she can see clearly how different the late effects of polio can be for others.

When I was seven months old, my Mother and Daddy noticed my runny nose and how much I was falling when I was trying to hold onto furniture and pull myself up. By the time the tests were completed, I couldn’t stand at all.

Ann Lee Hussey is a polio survivor and a veterinary technician who travels the world leading other volunteers on trips to vaccinate children against polio.

Ina Pinkney was infected in 1944, during World War II, more than a decade before the Salk Vaccine became available, stemming the annual summer epidemics that paralyzed communities almost like it paralyzed children.