Polio, a disease that can cause lifelong paralysis, has been eliminated from the U.S. Experts fear a resurgence if lifesaving ...

In its early stages, poliomyelitis — known as polio — causes fatigue, headaches, stiffness and limb pain after exposure to the poliovirus, according to the World Health Organization ...

The Robert Koch Institute (RKI) said the findings were not wild poliovirus and were instead linked to oral vaccinations with attenuated, but still live, polio pathogens. In very rare cases ...

She is the author of the book The Autumn Ghost: How the Battle Against a Polio Epidemic Revolutionized Modern Medical Care. Last month it was reported that Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s lawyer ...

“It is very hard to see her struggling to walk.” The polio virus spreads through contaminated drinking water. It enters at the mouth, migrates to the tonsils and then the gut. Here, the immune ...

Polio disables many fewer children now ... When there are enough unvaccinated children to infect, the pathogen slowly spreads, regaining its virulence and eventually causing paralysis.

By Apoorva Mandavilli Most American parents hardly give thought to polio beyond the instant their child is immunized against the disease. But there was a time in this country when polio paralyzed ...