The Disease That Never Ends. The personal narrative of a Saudi student who suffers form post-polio syndrome and the difficulties he faces in life. When Jonah Salk invented the vaccine for the poliovirus, the world believed that a terrible scourge of humanity had come under control. No more children in iron lungs, survivors with deformed limbs and fear polio epidemics. The nightmare was over, and little did the world know that polio would rear its ugly head again twenty years later in the form of Post-polio Syndrome. This essay also educated the average person to the elements of post-polio syndrome. Pages: 4 Bibliography: 0 source(s) listed Filename: 449 Disease Never Ends.doc Price: 35.80