post-polio

He died at the age of 90 in Sri Lanka from breathing problems and issues of post-polio syndrome, of which he suffered for decades.

Five People Born on December 16 | myFiveBest 2009

Now 75, Clarke is afflicted with post-polio syndrome; a debilitating disease about which little is known, since - as he himself dryly points out - few polio survivors have lived long enough to contract it.

Archive 2010-03-01 Blue Tyson 2010

In the 1990s, I started developing strange symptoms that are now known as post-polio syndrome.

Sharing Personal Stories: Polio 2010

She had Alzheimer's disease and post-polio syndrome.

Betty McLaughlin, church member Post 2011

Clarke, who had battled debilitating post-polio syndrome since the 1960s and sometimes used a wheelchair, died at 1: 30 a.m. local time after suffering breathing problems.

Ramblin' Gamblin' Mage: There's No Place Like Home othiym 2008

Polio was a rotten enough deal; post-polio syndrome, with a median onset of over thirty years after the initial course of the disease, felt a little like piling on to Skip.

THE BOYS FROM SANTA CRUZ Jonathan Nasaw 2010

That was the case for Genevieve Carlson, a 69-year-old retired teacher in Mankato, Minn., whose husband died last year from post-polio syndrome.

A Tough Choice: You or Your Kids Kelly Greene 2010

My hypertension started when post-polio sequelae caught up with me from childhood polio, I'm now 82.

Don't ignore hypertension 2010

He had suffered from post-polio syndrome for the last two decades.

Arthur C. Clarke, Premier Science Fiction Writer, Dies at 90 « Isegoria 2008

Clarke, who was post-polio and a wheelchair user in the last years of his life, wrote about 100 science fiction novels.

Sad losses from the world of film and sci fi BA Haller 2008