The measles outbreak is surging in West Texas, especially in under-vaccinated communities, but it’s not just coverage with ...

Recent human trials of a new one-year-long immune-based treatment for post-polio syndrome, which can strike polio survivors ...

Before the vaccine, polio outbreaks caused lifelong paralysis in thousands of people in the United States. Read on to learn more about the polio vaccine and how it works. The polio vaccine is the ...

You may also have neck stiffness, limb pain, or vomiting. Polio can cause permanent paralysis in about 1 in 200 people. And of those people, about 1 in 10 may die from the infection. What does ...

Polio was eliminated from most parts of the world as part of a decades-long effort by the World Health Organization and partners to wipe out the disease. But polio is one of the world’s most ...

A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens documents your change from an old, self-centered miser to a person concerned with ...

India plans to take over polio surveillance from WHO, entrusting the work to the National Centre for Disease Control. The ...

POLIO has emerged as a major challenge in Pakistan. It is not simply a challenge in the health sector, but has also become ...

A more affordable, lower-risk polio vaccine is on the horizon, research led by the University of Leeds has found.

MORE: What to know about the polio vaccine and why most people aren't at risk of infection The polio strain detected in the recent wastewater samples is genetically linked to the sample first ...