With vaccine sceptic Robert F. Kennedy Jr as United States Health Secretary and an outbreak in Papua New Guinea last month, ...

Polio is in the news, with vaccination under threat and recent outbreaks. This makes Alan Marshall’s classic disability memoir more relevant than ever.

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 ...

Kennedy Jr, Trump's Health Secretary, can be seen suggesting that the polio vaccine killed more people than it saved.'The polio vaccine contained a virus called SV40. It is one of the most ...

I was born in 1950 during the polio epidemic. Polio hit our extended family so I watched how my older cousin struggled with braces and crutches.

Mr. Ahmad’s story is echoed throughout Sector P1 of the new Farchana camp – known locally as the “wounded sector”– which ...

Vaccination has protected humans from an ever-lengthening list of infectious diseases: polio, yellow fever, diphtheria, ...

An avian flu outbreak that pushed egg prices higher is finally winding down. Polio reemerged in New York. And then there’s SARS-CoV-2, which is still infecting about 93,000 people a day in the U.S.

President Franklin D. Roosevelt is perhaps the most famous polio sufferer and survivor. He was an adult when, in 1921, he was diagnosed with polio after awakening one morning unable to move his legs.

Doctors note that only one in 200 polio carriers displays signs of paralysis, making detection difficult without laboratory examination of stool specimens. “Immunisation remains the most ...

Pakistan is one of the two polio-endemic countries in the world, along with Afghanistan, and the number of cases every year had significantly dropped in the country, until the recent spike in ...

In his welcome address, Chairman of Shagari local government, Maidawa Kajiji, represented by his deputy, Mansur Rafi, said flagging off the June round of 2025 polio in their domain was a great ...