Polio victims still struggle

Updated June 28 2018 - 1:22pm, first published October 17 2017 - 12:00am
STILL HERE AND STILL BATTLING - Jane Trengove is one of the 400,000 Australian polio survivors who want to be able to age with dignity.
STILL HERE AND STILL BATTLING - Jane Trengove is one of the 400,000 Australian polio survivors who want to be able to age with dignity.

FEW people will fail to remember the dreaded polio epidemic years of the 1930s, '40s, and '50s before vaccines relegated the infection to Australian history books - or so we thought.

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