A girl with polio meets one of the first children to get a polio vaccine. Bettmann/Getty Images By Elena Conis Graphics by Sara Chodosh and Aileen Clarke Dr. Conis is a historian of medicine and ...

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 ...

Recently on Reddit, older adults shared their experiences with "childhood diseases" like measles and polio when they were growing up back in the day, and it's so important that we don't ignore these ...

Polio is a highly contagious virus that can cause paralysis and even death. Thanks to the effectiveness of the polio vaccine, ...