By summer’s end, 184 people in Wytheville had polio. This meant one in every 30 residents caught the disease, giving the town ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The darker chapters of public health history do not seem to faze anti-vaccine activists, who have long claimed that measles, ...

Polio was eliminated from most parts of the world as part of a decadeslong effort by the World Health Organization and partners to wipe out the disease. But polio is one of the world’s most infectious ...

KARACHI, Pakistan (AP) — 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 ...

The World Health Organization has declared Indonesia’s polio outbreak officially over following nearly three years of ...