16 September 2022
By : Quick Insurance Guru
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Canadian actor Donald Sutherland contracted polio as a child.
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The 'Godfather' and 'Apocalypse Now' director contracted polio as a youngster, and was bedridden for large periods of his childhood.
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Especially known for playing Hawkeye Pierce in the television series 'M*A*S*H' (1972–1983), actor Alan Alda contracted polio at age seven.
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In 1951 a polio outbreak swept across Ontario.
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When Mia Farrow was nine years old, she was told she had polio. She spent eight months in the hospital, where an iron lung helped her breathe.
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Actor, director, and producer Mel Ferrer, who was famously married to Audrey Hepburn, suffered a bout of polio in the 1940s.
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Who eventually rose to prominence as the most notable female director in Hollywood in the 1950s, experienced a brief case of polio in 1934.
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Canadian musician and singer-songwriter Joni Mitchell started to sing while hospitalized with polio as a child.
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Golf legend Jack Nicklaus caught mild polio in his early teens and was affected with stiffness, pain, and weight loss over two weeks.
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