New York City Health Department officials announced on August 12 that they've identified traces of the poliovirus in the city's sewage system. Since 1979, there have been no cases of wild polio ...

That's how Thomas Francis Jr. of the University of Michigan School of Public Health announced the arrival of Jonas Salk's polio vaccine on April 12, 1955, to a stunned and grateful public. "People ...

Polio ravaged human bodies for hundreds of years, but the misery began to wane 70 years ago when two polio vaccines developed in the U.S. halted the virus' spread. Many Georgians who caught polio in ...

Depending on how young you are, your mother may remember polio. Your grandmother, though, would likely shudder at the mere mention of the word, which for years evoked images of iron lungs, of ...

On April 12, 1955, researchers announced the first polio vaccine, which was instantly approved. Before vaccines were available, polio caused 15,000 cases of paralysis in the US each year. The US ...