A Jan. 23 Instagram video (direct link, archive link) shows a woman talking about polio and claiming the disease has been renamed. As proof of this, she points to increased cases of other diseases in ...

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

The polio vaccine is the safest and most effective way to prevent polio, a dangerous and contagious viral infection that attacks the nervous system. Before the vaccine, polio outbreaks caused lifelong ...

US wastewater samples are showing an alarming increase in a respiratory virus that has been linked to polio-like symptoms. An enterovirus variant, EV-D68, can lead to acute flaccid myelitis, which can ...

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 ...

Physicians have yet to identify the mysterious polio-like illness that has paralyzed more than 100 children across 34 states since last summer, according to a USA Today report. The cases mark the ...

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 ...

Despite the detection, there have been no reports of infection in Germany and scientists say the risk is minimized by high ...

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