ED Bollenbach thought he had had his final encounter with polio in Yonkers, New York, in 1954, when the disease cut his legs out from under him while he was walking home from second grade.
But 30 years later, Bollenbach, an avid bicyclist, cross-country skier and swimmer, felt pain and weakness in his back and right leg, the same areas hit hardest in his youth by the polio virus.
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