A documentary about how Dr Jonas Salk and the 'march of dimes' came together to help conquer polio. Featuring interviews with Bill Gates, experts and polio survivors.

By summer’s end, 184 people in Wytheville had polio. This meant one in every 30 residents caught the disease, giving the town the highest polio rate in American history. July brought new cases almost ...

A new era is born.

Wunsch is a distinguished professor and vice chair for research in the department of anesthesiology at Weill Cornell Medicine. She is the author of the book The Autumn Ghost: How the Battle Against a ...

Francis Ford Coppola is issuing a dire warning on polio amid concerns about the future of vaccines. The Kennedy Center honoree recalled his experience with the disease after recent reports revealed a ...

Kimberly Witt is an Iowa transplant placing roots in St. Paul, Minnesota, where she and her husband parent two young adult sons born in Ethiopia. Growing up, my siblings and I would occasionally get ...

CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa (KCRG) - Flight to End Polio is excited to take off on a record-breaking flight, beginning on August 30th. The flight titled, “Circle the Atlantic: Flight To End Polio”, is a part ...

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Alan D. T. Barrett is at the Sealy Institute for Vaccine Sciences and in the Department of Pathology, University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, Texas 77555, USA. Polio is a potentially ...