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

One way is to expose the pathogen to heat. This is how the bacteria in the typhoid vaccine is inactivated. Another way is to use radiation. For the polio vaccine developed by Jonas Salk in 1954 ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...