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 ...

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

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

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 Hospital, grew ...

Teens all across Canada and the United States followed in Elvis's footsteps and got the polio shot. As a matter of fact, vaccination rates among youth soared to 80 percent just six months later.

Medical research 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 ...

Pakistan is one of only two countries where polio remains endemic and it is aiming to eradicate it by 2027, but with cases soaring last year, experts and officials worry it will miss its goal.

The polio vaccine became available in 1955 and virtually eliminated the scourge of this disease. Children in my generation lined up to get the sugar cube laced with the vaccine; our parents would ...

WebMD explains about the inactivated polio vaccine (IPV), including its benefits, recommended immunization schedule, possible risks, and potential side effects.

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1:41 Doctors cite concern over polio vaccine politics in U.S. Polio, a highly contagious viral infection that can cause paralysis and death, has been eradicated in Canada for decades thanks to ...

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.