David Eulitt

portraits

Ted Wienstroer , 55, uses a motorized chair to reach the second floor of his midtown Kansas City home. Story on the post-polio syndrome, which began to sap the strength of Wienstroer in 1992 after he contracted polio when he was twoyears old.Part of a portrait series on the last polio victims following Jonas Salk's 1955 polio vaccine.
photo by David Eulitt / The Kansas City Star ©


Ted Wienstroer , 55, uses a motorized chair to reach the second floor of his midtown Kansas City home. Story on the post-polio syndrome, which began to sap the strength of Wienstroer in 1992 after he contracted polio when he was twoyears old.

Part of a portrait series on the last polio victims following Jonas Salk's 1955 polio vaccine.