The Last Polio Patient - Max Gaddis

http://edition.cnn.com/2014/03/22/health/india-end-of-polio/index.html

Rukhsar Khatoon, a four year old girl with polio, is believed to be the last person in India that has caught polio. Her parents blame themselves for it because when she was born, she was a sickly child and they didn't give her the polio vaccine as to not subject her to more medicine. Her siblings got the vaccine, but she was the only one that didn't get it. When she was eighteen months old, her right foot swelled and looked crooked. Her parents took her to the hospital where doctors diagnosed her with polio. Scientists thought India was to be the last, and hardest country to get rid of the disease, but they were wrong. Rukhsar's parents are now urging other parents to get their children vaccinated, even if the disease is dying out.

I think that they should've gotten her vaccinated regardless, but I can see why they didn't.