She was a trailblazer with a remarkable story – Sister Elizabeth Kenny, the Australian bush nurse who defied the medical fraternity to develop her own unorthodox methods to treat polio.
Australia was declared polio-free in 2000 thanks to the success of vaccines, but last century polio was one of the most feared diseases in the world.
Between 1930 and 1986, an estimated 20,000 to 40,000 Australian children developed paralytic polio.
