With polio cases rising in parts of Europe, Asia and Africa, the CDC recommends travelers ensure vaccinations are current and ...

The World Health Organization has closed in on its bold goal of eradicating polio several times, but the paralytic virus is ...

For the past decade, Sughra Ayaz has travelled door to door in southeastern Pakistan, pleading with parents to allow children ...

The World Health Organization has closed in on its bold goal of eradicating polio several times, but the paralytic virus is ...

Experts say challenges with vaccination programmes on the ground have led to the ongoing transmission of the wild polio virus ...

In a bid to bolster partnership and tackle polio in the North East region, a joint delegation from the Borno and Yobe States' ...

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.

LAHORE: The national and provincial leadership has reaffirmed its commitment to ending polio in Pakistan by finalizing a ...

Until recently, polio had been a relic of history in the U.S. Once a scourge that paralyzed or killed up to tens of thousands of children every year, the U.S. declared the disease officially ...

Polio is "a serious and life-threatening disease," the state health department said. It's highly contagious, and people can spread the virus before they start showing symptoms — which can take ...

Post-polio syndrome affects 25–40% of polio survivors decades after their initial illness, according to the CDC. "I have to guard my energy," she said at the time.

To stop polio in Britain, the U.S. and Israel, what is needed is more vaccination, experts say. That is something Columbia University's Barrett worries could be challenging in the COVID-19 era.