As polio appears again, decades after it was considered eliminated in the U.S., Americans unfamiliar with the dreaded disease need a primer on protecting themselves and their young children.

The polio eradication pledge in Berlin over the weekend marked the first major opportunity to pledge support toward the $4.8 billion needed to fully implement the 2022-26 strategy. Shot in the arm ...

On Aug. 27, the Rutland Daily Herald reported that doctors believed an epidemic of cerebral meningitis, spinal meningitis and cerebro-spinal meningitis had hit the city and surrounding area. Over the ...

To be safe, the U.S. switched to the inactive polio vaccine (IPV) in 2000. And IPV protects you like OPV, without the risk of paralysis. Your child will get IPV as a shot in the arm or leg at the ...

As the number of polio doctors dwindles, the disease’s survivors are suffering alone ... In this respect, Fuller was lucky. The disease spared him, leaving only a weakened left leg and right arm.

The new vaccines, then, will be less expensive to produce than IPVs, helping to improve fair and equal access to vaccination – ensuring that once polio is eradicated, it will stay eradicated.

Meanwhile, the polio vaccination rate among 2-year-oldsin Rockland County is 60.5%; the statewide average is 79.1% Shots are recommended at 2 months, 4 months, between 6 and 18 months, and then ...

Inactivated polio vaccine (IPV) is the only polio vaccine that has been given in the United States since 2000, according to the CDC. It is given by shot in the leg or arm, depending on the patient ...

Next, his arm went floppy: he couldn’t lift a glass of water to his mouth. That’s when Bove, a neurologist who, at that time, was wrapping up her training at Massachusetts General ... Enterovirus D-68 ...

A nurse steadies the arm of 8-year-old Gail Rosenthal as Dr. Jonas E. Salk injects the Salk polio vaccine during 1954 field trials in the Pittsburgh area.