Polio ravaged human bodies for hundreds of years, but the misery began to wane 70 years ago when two polio vaccines developed in the U.S. halted the virus’ spread.

I lived in a poor, Black community in Winston Salem, North Carolina, and was one of two children in 1959 who contracted polio as a result of getting the oral vaccine. I also had measles, tonsillitis ...

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 ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

Bill Nye critiqued HHS chief Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and his views on science and vaccines at a STAT event in New York.

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 ...