Abstract
Born in 1943 during World War 2, Larisa Rudenko grew up in Zaporozh'ye, in southeast Ukraine. Having lost her father during the war, she was raised by her mother, a paediatrician, and spent many early days queuing for food rations. Later, things improved and they were able to take family holidays to Crimea. “I saw many unhappy children in wheelchairs there, and mother told me they had polio and there was no treatment”, she tells The Lancet Infectious Diseases. “I wanted to help those children. My mother said that American and Russian scientists were working together on a vaccine to help prevent this horrible disease.”
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