Salk’s vaccine rollout got off to a rough start in 1955, when California’s Cutter Laboratories botched production and created a product that actually gave 220,000 people polio, left 164 severely ...

October 24 is celebrated as World Polio Day annually. The fight against polio has been highly successful at the global level but the job is not finished.

As long as there have been vaccines, there has been vaccine terror, going back to the early 18th Century, when Boston faced a smallpox pandemic. Onesimus, an enslaved African owned by Cotton Mather, ...

KARACHI, Pakistan — 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 ...

Polio ravaged human bodies for hundreds of years, but the misery began to wane 70 years ago when two polio vaccines developed in the U.S. halted the virus’ spread. Many Georgians who caught polio in ...