A new era is born.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...