Within 15 days, polio ravaged her body, partially paralyzing her limbs and weakening her neck. She was moved to the D.T.

Back then, fear and doubt about polio were rampant. But the nation didn’t dwell on problems. We did what Americans always do — focused on solutions.

She came home with a high temperature, feeling very ill. The next morning, her legs gave out when she tried to get out of bed ...

She came home with a high temperature, feeling very ill. The next morning, her legs gave out when she tried to get out of bed. By that evening, she was ...

The March of Dimes mobilized millions to raise money and Dr. Salk and other researchers refused to accept defeat. Seventy years ago, on April 12, 1955, the vaccine was declared safe and effective.

Columnist Tom Purcell shares the story of his aunt, Cecilia, who contracted polio at age 12 and volunteered for Dr. Jonas Salk's early vaccine trials to help advance his polio research. Seventy years ...

"I lost almost all of my hearing from measles. It was horrible. I was so sick. I missed so much of second grade that I went ...

I lived in a poor, Black community in Winston Salem, North Carolina, and was one of two children in 1959 who contracted polio as a result of getting the oral vaccine. I also had measles, tonsillitis ...

Polio remains a debilitating disease with no ... adding that the patient is “stable” and being looked after in the isolation ward. According to Tunio, the patient’s wife, who rec­ently ...

Pakistan's Regional Reference Laboratory for Polio Eradication has detected Wild Poliovirus Type 1 in sewage samples from 18 districts, including Islamabad and major cities in all four provinces.