11.   He had been abandoned on the streets of his native country and had contracted polio.

12.   He spent years struggling with health problems, contracting polio as a child and in recent years battling lung cancer and the debilitating side effects of chemotherapy.

13.   Its presence there is intended to remind visitors that Roosevelt contracted polio and was confined to a wheelchair long before being elected president.

14.   Seaborn said she contracted polio as an infant.

15.   The future president had contracted polio.

16.   They do not remember when children were forbidden to swim in public pools all summer so they would not contract polio.

17.   They had contracted polio, when even a rumor of a case of the disease could close down a playground, a public swimming pool or a school.

18.   William Reidy contracted polio as a child and uses leg braces and crutches.

19.   In both cases, several vaccinated children contracted polio and died.