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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

These haunting words from Peg Kehret's award winning book Small Steps: The Year I Got Polio remind us of a time when the fight against the disease was far from over. It is a fight we cannot afford ...

Immunity for diseases such as measles, polio, or mumps lasts much longer because of the nature of the pathogens and the immune response they provoke. In a study published in the New England ...

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 ...