What can regular people do to get involved? Get educated. I know about polio because of my father-in-law, but since 1988, the number of polio cases has been reduced by 99 percent. I know so much ...

What are the benefits of the polio vaccine? The polio vaccine protects against poliomyelitis (polio), a highly infectious ...

Data on the number of cases for these diseases from the pre-vaccine era is hard to come by, and even the case counts are ...

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 cases were once common in the United States and around the world. During one of the most severe outbreaks in 1952, the virus infected 58,000 people in the US, paralyzed more than 21,000 and ...

It seemed that people's hopes were dashed until investigators ... The impact was dramatic: In 1955 there were 28,985 cases of polio; in 1956, 14,647; in 1957, 5,894. By 1959, 90 other countries ...

Sky News said that "most people with polio will not have any symptoms." Poliomyelitis spreads from person to person mostly through the fecal-oral route, or less frequently, through a common ...

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