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 ...

A large study of US adults 65 and older enrolled in Medicare finds that the risk of Guillain-Barre syndrome (GBS)—a rare ...

There’s a reason you rarely hear about people catching polio—let alone dying from the highly infectious disease—particularly in the U.S. And if you’re under the age of 70, you’ve likely never had to ...

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 ...

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 ...

Polio is a contagious virus that at first may give flu-like symptoms but could in some more serious cases progress to meningitis or even paralysis. The CDC recommends four doses of the inactivated ...

Germany has found the wild polio virus in a sewage sample in Hamburg, the first such detection in Europe since 2010.

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 ...

German authorities on Thursday identified the northern city of Hamburg as the location where a sewage sample containing the ...

Memoir to mom, who died 50 years to day after son's diagnosis. Kurt Sipolski, fourth from the left, and his mother Iris Mondy and other members of his family when they lived in Illinois. Courtesy Kurt ...