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.

It’s her family that won’t affirm her having polio.

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 ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

The first U.S. case of polio in nearly a decade has been confirmed in an unvaccinated individual in Rockland County, N.Y., local and state health officials announced Thursday. While the origins of ...

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 ...

In recent weeks, Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has begun to dismantle decades of vaccine safety ...

The only polio vaccine approved in the U.S. is an inactivated polio vaccine (IPV), which is given by a shot in the arm or leg, depending on the person’s age. People vaccinated with the oral polio ...

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.