Polio, a disease that can cause lifelong paralysis, has been eliminated from the U.S. Experts fear a resurgence if lifesaving ...

New York Gov. Kathy Hochul on Friday declared a state of emergency over a polio outbreak in hopes of boosting vaccination rates in the state, according to a CBS News... An unvaccinated adult in ...

But a type linked to an oral vaccine used in other nations has already turned up in the West. By Apoorva Mandavilli Most American parents hardly give thought to polio beyond the instant their ...

Here is what we know about polio as a disease, its vaccines and the likely number of lives saved through inoculation.

My Aunt Jean, my father’s older sister, was a victim of the infamous Cutter vaccine, an early variant of the polio vaccine presumed to contain an inactivated version of the live virus.

As part of the worldwide effort to stop polio, he was given a limited number of Salk vaccines to give to second graders. My brother was in second grade and so received one of the doses that spring.

Pakistan reported at least 73 cases last year, up from only one in 2021, and the disease is now rapidly spreading in the ...

Two years after contracting polio, and roughly a decade before the nation’s first polio vaccination campaign, the boy who would become one of the most powerful U.S. senators had finally been ...