With a polio case reported in Rockland County, New York, adults may be wondering whether they should get a polio vaccine booster after getting vaccinated as a child. Didn’t think you’d have “Decide ...

Polio disabled about 35,000 people in the US each year at its peak, according to the CDC. Mia Farrow said she was quarantined with polio at age 9 and came home to find her belongings had been burned.

ISLAMABAD -- Pakistan reported fewer than half as many cases of polio in 2025 than the previous year, a sign of progress in ...

Sorrow, fear, hospitals overwhelmed, closures – all due to the deadly coronavirus. And all hallmarks of another deadly and mysterious virus that terrified Americans, starting at the turn of the 20th ...

Evidence that the virus is likely circulating in New York has reignited concerns over the disease. By Dani Blum During the slog of yet another Covid wave, and mounting monkeypox anxieties, health ...

On April 12, 1955, researchers announced the first polio vaccine, which was instantly approved. Before vaccines were available, polio caused 15,000 cases of paralysis in the US each year. The US ...

Since 1988, cases of polio have fallen by more than 99%, and many observers predict that the disease could be eradicated within the next three years. However, eradication isn’t the same as extinction, ...

Polio used to be one of the most feared childhood diseases. It can attack the nervous system and - in just a few hours - leave someone paralysed. If it paralyses the chest muscles, people are unable ...

Twenty-one years since Australia was declared polio free, some survivors are living with the disease's long-lasting effects, and fear a number might not even know. In 1950, when Gillian Thomas ...

According to the polio eradication programme, only 30 cases have been reported since September; expert says virus tends to ...

Health officials in New York have discovered a case of polio in an adult — the first case in the country since 2013. The good news is most people have nothing to worry about. "Unless you're ...