Before vaccines and public health triumphs, polio was the thing that kept parents up at night. During its peak from 1948 to 1955, the disease swept through towns across America, hitting children the ...

More than half of the polio cases in Pakistan last year were from children who hadn't received a single dose of either version of the vaccines. The other 45% were children who had received the oral ...

While Robert F. Kennedy Jr., President Donald Trump’s pick to lead the US Department of Health and Human Services, has backpedaled on his anti-vaccine rhetoric during his Senate confirmation hearings, ...

When smallpox was declared eradicated in 1980, there were hopes that poliovirus might soon be next. As a result of an eradication campaign that began in 1988, two of the virus’s three subtypes have ...

World Polio Day is meant to create awareness about this disease and how to prevent it through regular vaccination in children. According to UNICEF’s website, cases of polio – an untreatable but ...

Polio, or poliomyelitis, is a disease caused by the poliovirus. It can cause permanent paralysis or even death. The disease has existed for thousands of years. The U.S. experienced an outbreak in the ...

Back in 2022, everyone was surprised (and a little uneasy) when the news was announced that a man in New York had contracted poliovirus (polio, for short). After all, don't all children receive the ...

Carol Ferguson (left) and Jim Smith, both of Pennsylvania, have post-polio syndrome, which is a condition that includes new muscle weakness, joint pain and other issues decades after survivors were ...

An unvaccinated Rockland County, N.Y., resident exposed to an individual who received an oral poliovirus vaccine contracted the neurological disease and is now paralyzed, according to Rockland County ...

Los Angeles, CA-ORIGINAL CAPTION: Until the polio vaccine came along, clinics across the US were crammed with iron lungs. Photograph ca. 1950. Earlier this week, President-Elect Donald Trump declared ...

The global campaign to eradicate polio has been incredibly successful except in one key way: It hasn't actually eradicated polio. Some prominent scientists who've spent their entire careers battling ...

On 24th October every year, World Polio Day is observed all over the globe, in memory of Dr. Jonas Salk, the scientist who was instrumental in developing the first successful vaccine for polio. This ...