As they prepared to leave their home early Saturday, Nelson grabbed the polio insurance policy he’d purchased. The year was ...

Health officials reiterated that polio is a highly infectious and incurable disease, often leading to permanent paralysis in ...

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 ...

ISLAMABAD: Two fresh polio cases have been confirmed in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, bringing Pakistan’s total count this year to 26, ...

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 ...

LONDON — 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 ...

Pakistan reported two new polio cases in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, raising the national tally to 26, *Dawn* reported. The NIH said ...

He projected an additional 200,000 cases of polio that cause paralysis each year and hundreds of millions of infections overall. "The sudden cuts to U.S. funding are also affecting efforts to ...