Links to Other Polio Information Resources

Print and Video Resources

• Polio and the era of fear For a time, polio was the most feared disease in the developed world. This book tells the story of that time.
  


• Halstead, Lauro, "Post Polio Syndrome," Scientific American, April 1998, pp. 42-47.
An excellent review of the current state of knowledge about this perplexing condition.  The full text of this article is available on the Lincolnshire PPS site.


• The Story of Polio The Web site of a PBS special about the history of the disease.
  


• The Last Child  The site for a new documentary film entitled "The Last Child," about the global polio eradication effort.

Post-Polio Syndrome (PPS)

• Support Groups and Centers

• International Polio Network A group which provides information about post-polio syndrome as well as ventilators. Based in St. Louis, Missouri.

• Lincolnshire Polio Site Maintained by Chris Salter in the UK, this is an outstanding site for up-to-date information about PPS and polio.  Includes the full text of the Halstead article referenced above.

• Post-Polio Institute at Englewood Hospital A PPS treatment center based in Englewood, New Jersey, with an informative, straightforward Web site that should be useful for anyone interested in learning more about this condition.

• Portuguese Post-Polio Association A post-polio support group based in Portugal, for those readers located on that side of the Atlantic.  Since nobody here at PICO reads Portuguese, we cannot provide any further comment on the site's content.  It does produce a pop-up window with an advertisement in English when you get there, though.

• Medical Information and News

Always take medical information on the Internet with a large grain of salt, and if you think you need treatment, see a doctor in person.  With that in mind, here are a few information  sites that might be of interest.

• End Of An Era: Polio Vaccine Pioneer Jonas Salk Dies An obituary.

• Johns Hopkins University Infectious Disease No, Hopkins has not become a virus. This is an informative site with information about a variety of conditions, including post-polio syndrome.

• Post-Polio Syndrome Central A meta-site listing Internet resources for PPS patients. Also includes some original content, polls, and surveys, and is the home of the Post-Polio-Med Email List, for conversing with others interested in this topic.

• PPS Information An information and link page about PPS - lots of resources for PPS sufferers and polio survivors. Animation and sound make this a bad site for those with slow modem connections.

Links to the Polio Eradication Front

• The Albert B. Sabin Vaccine Institute A nonprofit organization dedicated to advancing the vision of Albert Sabin.  This group helps support the development of new vaccines and the distribution of existing ones for a variety of diseases.

• League Table: Action on Polio Updates on various nations' progress towards polio eradication, based on UNICEF data.

• Ending polio - now or never? Timing may be crucial for the destruction of this virus, and this article argues that the current opportunity may not come around again.

• Rotary Club of Wanganui Daybreak The Rotarians have been instrumental in the eradication campaign, and this New Zealand chapter is actively raising funds to continue the effort.

• The Vaccine Site An information resource assembled by the editors of Unisci. The site is conveniently broken into links of interest to parents, medical practitioners, and researchers.

• WHO Polio Eradication Effort From the people largely responsible for the effort, a site about it. We might not always agree with their approach, but we applaud the goal.