Sep. 18—Question : We don't think my dad ever got the polio vaccine. He was not born in the United States and doesn't have any immunization records from early childhood. Question : We don't think my ...

We're in the last mile in the fight to eradicate polio, but progress is fragile. As long as the disease is a threat anywhere, it remains a threat everywhere. A look at how UNICEF and partners are ...

On April 12, 1955, researchers announced the first polio vaccine, which was instantly approved. Before vaccines were available, polio caused 15,000 cases of paralysis in the US each year. The US ...

Members of the Post Polio Network volunteer at a recent health and disability fair in New Hope, Pa. Jim Smith was only 2 years old when he suddenly became paralyzed from the neck down. It was 1945, ...

For the past decade, Sughra Ayaz has traveled door to door in southeastern Pakistan, pleading with parents to allow children to be vaccinated against polio as part of a global campaign to wipe out the ...

The world is so close to wiping out polio. But in 2025, there are signs that the virus is not quite ready to go the way of smallpox — the only disease eradicated by humans. Two countries are seeing an ...

Growing up, my siblings and I would occasionally get to look through my mom’s scrapbook full of greeting cards from friends and neighbors and black-and-white photos of children in hospital beds. Too ...

Carol Ferguson (left) and Jim Smith, both of Pennsylvania, have post-polio syndrome, which is a condition that includes new muscle weakness, joint pain and other issues decades after survivors were ...

Kimberly Witt is an Iowa transplant placing roots in St. Paul, Minnesota, where she and her husband parent two young adult sons born in Ethiopia. Growing up, my siblings and I would occasionally get ...