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Daily Mirror
Daily Mirror
National
Dave Burke

'Polio left me unable to walk at 5 - its return to UK sent shivers down my spine'

When news broke that polio has been spreading in the UK for the first time in decades, Mark Esho's blood ran cold.

The 59-year-old is one of the last people to have contracted the virus in this country, and has described his ordeal as a "nightmare".

Mark was just five years old when he woke up paralysed from the neck down - and doctors said he had just a 10 per cent chance of survival.

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