To Greg, Glad you’re getting well so fast.’ ...

The 1950s was a turning point for polio. Amid deadly outbreaks, Jonas Salk developed a vaccine that saved countless lives ...

I’m going to let my grandfather, Walter Krueger, take my history column this week. After graduating from NDSU, Walt and his ...

To placate her, he said she had a new virus called “Virus X.” She found it odd, then, that she was placed in the polio ward. She told the nurse she didn’t have polio. She had Virus X ...

I was given those shots when I was in the hospital with polio. I was in a polio ward with probably 20 kids. Our lungs were lined up and down the room. Over the two years that I was in the hospital ...

For decades, polio had terrified parents and transfixed the nation. Each summer, polio outbreaks forced closures of swimming pools and movie theaters. A 1916 epidemic caused 27,000 cases of ...

This month marks the 70th anniversary of the polio vaccine developed by Jonas Salk and his colleagues being officially declared “safe, effective and potent,” jump-starting a vaccination effort ...

In the lake-district of  Mirpur, AJK,  a total of 72422 children of  under 05 years of age will be administered polio vaccine ...

After undergoing two weeks of hospital treatment and two months of bed rest, I learned I was the only patient in that hospital’s polio ward not developing any paralysis. The vaccine allowed me a ...