A person from Rockland County, New York, has been diagnosed with polio, the first case identified in the United States in nearly a decade. The unvaccinated young adult began experiencing weakness ...

Polio has been a common childhood vaccine since the 1950s, but do adults need a polio booster? What about if you’re planning to travel? Infectious disease experts break it down.

R ecently on Reddit, older adults shared their experiences with "childhood diseases" like measles and polio when they were growing up back in the day, and it's so important that we don't ignore ...

Decades after the vaccine, adults with post-polio syndrome are struggling with symptoms—and looking for answers. By Frieda Klotz / Undark. Published Jan 7, 2023 7:00 PM EST ...

It would certainly only you to cross “decide whether to get the polio vaccine booster as an adult” off your 2022 list of things to do. And your 2023 one, your 2024 one, and so forth.

As polio appears again, decades after it was considered eliminated in the U.S., ... Adults who are immunocompromised, traveling to a country where poliovirus is circulating, ...

2. "I was a kid in the 1940s-'50s and had ALL the diseases except polio, scarlet fever, and rheumatic fever. Whooping cough (pertussis) was the very worst — I had it for 6 months — disgusting!

The first polio epidemic in the United States began in Vermont in 1894, an outbreak that killed 18 people and left at least 58 paralyzed. Waves of outbreaks tore through the country over the next ...

Polio cases were once common in the United States and around the world. During one of the most severe outbreaks in 1952, the virus infected 58,000 people in the US, paralyzed more than 21,000 and ...

A person from Rockland County, New York, has been diagnosed with polio, the first case identified in the United States in nearly a decade. The unvaccinated young adult began experiencing weakness ...