CUTTER201PG.JPG Anne in her livingroom with her dogs. .April 25 is the 50th anniversay of an event that became known as the Cutter Incident. The new Salk polio vaccine had been approved two weeks ...

I spoke with Ramesh Ferris, a polio survivor, about his experience living with the virus and what he wishes people knew about it. This as-told-to essay is based on our conversation. Ramesh Ferris ...

An ancient virus, polio has crippled and killed humans for centuries. Etchings on Egyptian vessels show people with withered legs on crutches. Striking children younger than 5 the hardest, the ...

Wearing name tags, they sit around tables, with paper handouts full of research spread around them. Within reach are pens and paper.

And those who grew up before the polio vaccine was available have memories of children returning to school in leg braces, ...

Tens of thousands of Americans — in the first half of the 20th century — were stricken by poliomyelitis. Polio, as it's known, is a disease that attacks the central nervous system and often ...

The CDC confirmed that a patient in New York has contracted polio, the first U.S. case since 2013. But most people shouldn't be concerned about contracting the virus because of high vaccination rates.

Diane Davis didn't want to admit that polio could harm her any more than it already had. After all, it had been part of her life since she was just 21 months old. On an October day in 1952, the S… ...

“The doctor said, `polio,’ ” Spader said. ... He learned to walk using crutches and braces, married, fathered two children, and worked as an accountant for 38 years.

Polio was the scourge of the first half of the 20th century until Dr. Jonas Salk created a life-saving vaccine. ... and you'd see kids in leg braces and kids on crutches, ...

Dave Clark’s story starts back in 1953. “I was diagnosed with polio at ten months old,” Clark said. “First, doctors told my parents I wasn’t going to live and then told them I wasn’t ...