82-year-old Mona Randolph is a polio survivor and one of the last three people in the U.S. who still uses an iron lung Julie Mazziotta is the Senior Sports Editor at PEOPLE, covering everything ...

Episode 155For the Love of Goats Goat polio is a serious and often misunderstood condition—frequently mistaken for other ...

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

In the late 1940s, polio outbreaks in the U.S. disabled an average of more than 35,000 people each year. Following the introduction of vaccines, the number of polio cases fell rapidly to less than ...

Artscape CEO Marlene le Roux, a polio survivor denied access to vaccine as a child due to apartheid policies, is fighting for ...

As a class, prepare an oral history of the impact of polio on people in your community. Begin by brainstorming a list of questions concerning people’s experiences with polio. For example ...

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 ...

Polio, bad! That there’s a guy who doesn ... Rose Broderick reports on the health policies and technologies that govern people with disabilities’ lives. Before coming to STAT, she worked ...

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 ...

There are even examples of celebrities that had polio but survived and made their name in their profession such as Mia Farrow ...

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

For rubella, it’s six to seven. And for polio, it’s five to seven. (For comparison, someone with COVID-19 can infect about three people, on average.) The measles virus also hangs around ...