By summer’s end, 184 people in Wytheville had polio. This meant one in every 30 residents caught the disease, giving the town the highest polio rate in American history. July brought new cases almost ...

FILE - A health worker administers a polio vaccine to a child in Karachi, Pakistan, Monday, Jan. 8, 2024. (AP Photo/Fareed Khan, File) LONDON (AP) — Polio was eliminated from most parts of the world ...

Wearing masks, avoiding large gatherings, shutting down schools—those scenes might sound familiar to anyone who experienced the most recent global pandemic.

In the summer of 1950 fear gripped the residents of Wytheville, Virginia. Movie theaters shut down, baseball games were cancelled and panicky parents kept their children indoors — anything to keep ...

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 ...

While polio may seem like a disease of the past, its eradication is still unfinished business—and one of the most ambitious global health undertakings in history. In honor of World Polio Day on ...

Los Angeles, CA-ORIGINAL CAPTION: Until the polio vaccine came along, clinics across the US were crammed with iron lungs. Photograph ca. 1950. Earlier this week, President-Elect Donald Trump declared ...

Advertisements for freezers, lounge chairs and remedies for itching, gas and constipation were on the fifth page of Uniontown’s Evening Standard on April 16, 1952, which was a Wednesday. As they ...

Alexander Tin is a digital reporter for CBS News based in the Washington, D.C. bureau. He covers federal public health agencies. "Anyone seeking the Senate's consent to serve in the incoming ...

Overland was a reporter and public health writer in Asia for more than a decade. She is currently an editor at NPR. My son was 5 years old when he climbed out of bed and landed on the floor. He was ...