Weekly · World Stock PushSkip to content Bloomberg Connecting decision makers to a dynamic network of information, people and ideas, Bloomberg quickly and accurately delivers business and financial information, news and insight around the world For Customers Support Americas +1 212 318 2000 EMEA +44 20 7330 7500 Asia Pacific +65 6212 1000 Company Communications Follow Products Industry Products Media Media Services Company Communications Follow Products Industry Products Media Media Services Bloomberg Connecting decision makers to a dynamic network of information, people and ideas, Bloomberg quickly and accurately delivers business and financial information, news and insight around the world For Customers Support Americas +1 212 318 2000 EMEA +44 20 7330 7500 Asia Pacific +65 6212 1000 Sept. 2, 2026, 8:00 AM UTC Andri White woke up in an iron lung. It was 1955, and the 7-year-old had just returned to London from a family vacation on England’s south coast, where, unbeknown to her, the poliovirus was lurking in the water. White soon fell ill with poliomyelitis, a life-threatening disease caused by the virus, and within weeks, she was paralyzed.
She’d spend much of the next two years hospitalized — and the next 70 fighting for the medical system to take seriously her litany of continued side effects. Today there are roughly 12 million to 20 million polio survivors worldwide, including an estimated ... Learn more about Bloomberg Law or Log In to keep reading: See Breaking News in Context Bloomberg Law provides trusted coverage of current events enhanced with legal analysis.
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