Polio remains only in the global regions where vaccine rates are low. The U.S. should take heed.

A polio expert calls the result "an achievement", noting that previous campaigns routinely missed 800,000 to 1 million children, roughly three times as many as this year's 300,000. Assuming the ...

Sad and terrifying memories of pre-vaccine life will provide "immunization against false ideas," according to the group ...

LONDON -- Four African countries have reported new cases of polio linked to the oral vaccine, as global health numbers show there are now more children being paralyzed by viruses originating in ...

Growing up in the late 1940s and early 1950s, every family lived with the fear of paralytic polio. In my own neighborhood, ...

While polio may seem like a disease of the past, its eradication is still unfinished business—and one of the most ambitious global health undertakings in history. In honor of World Polio Day on ...

Earlier this month, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention issued a level two travel notice about global polio, ...

April 12, 1955, was a national holiday in the U.S. Almost all TVs and radios were tuned in to an announcement all Americans had anxiously awaited. At long last, a vaccine for polio had arrived. The ...

On 12 April 1955, Dr Jonas Salk announced that his vaccine was safe and effective – but he refused to profit from it.