Polio, a disease that in the past paralyzed thousands of Americans annually, is making a comeback in the U.S. due to vaccine skepticism and declining immunization rates, The New York Times reported ...

In its original form, the virus survives in just two countries. But a type linked to an oral vaccine used in other nations ...

We need more than just Mitch McConnell speaking out in favor of the polio vaccine. McConnell is one of hundreds of thousands ...

"Some of the kids never stopped crying, not from pain, but from fear and loneliness." These haunting words from Peg Kehret's award winning book Small Steps: The Year I Got Polio remind us of a time ...

My mom's memories of her paralytic polio are just one reason I worry about progress Robert F. Kennedy Jr. could undo, writes Kimberly Witt.

Health officials are sounding the alarm about a decline in the percentage of young children being vaccinated against measles, mumps, rubella and polio. More than 6,000 kindergarten students in ...

The CDC recommends that all children get four doses of the polio vaccine, and all 50 states as well as Washington, D.C., require children entering public school or daycare to receive polio ...

My mother worked as a physical therapist at Newark’s Branch Brook School, a one-story building that had ramps rather than stairs so post-polio children in wheelchairs or on crutches could get ...

I was in kindergarten and medical protocol for the new vaccine limited the vaccine to children in second grade. Unvaccinated, I contracted polio in September of 1954. Fortunately, I was among the ...

Pakistan is one of the last two countries in the world, alongside Afghanistan, where polio remains endemic, with the disease mostly affecting children under five, and sometimes causing lifelong ...

ISLAMABAD: Poliovirus continues to cripple children in Pakistan as another child was diagnosed with the crippling disease in Balochistan taking the national tally to 65. According to the ...