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 ...

In May 1942, he underwent the first of several surgeries to help give him more mobility in his left hand and arm. Because polio's impact doesn't just end with the initial viral attack, Ennis ...

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.

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 ...

New polio vaccine could be a shot in the arm to eradicate disease The oral dose is cheap and widely used but can cause paralytic polio in areas with low coverage and poor health.

Decades after the vaccine, adults with post-polio syndrome are struggling with symptoms—and looking for answers. Search for: Science. ... leaving only a weakened left leg and right arm.

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.