The CDC is encouraging Americans traveling abroad to make sure they are up to date on their polio vaccines The CDC has issued a level 2 alert cautioning travelers to “practice enhanced precautions” if ...

In the 1940s and 1950s, hospital wards in the U.S. were filled with iron lungs helping many children, and some adults, who had polio breathe and stay alive. The use of polio vaccines have helped make ...

While polio may seem like a disease of the past, its eradication is still unfinished business—and one of the most ambitious global health undertakings in history. In honor of World Polio Day on ...

When Nigeria was certified free of wild poliovirus five years ago, it was a moment of pride not just for our country, but for the whole African region. I still remember that day vividly. After decades ...

This 1960 photograph depicts a nurse caring for a patient of a Rhode Island polio epidemic inside an Emerson respirator, also referred to as an iron lung. Devices like these were used by polio ...

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