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.

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

I contracted polio in 1953 and was put into a contagion ward. My cousin also had polio and it attacked his lungs. He was put in an iron lung, and it was (a) death sentence and he lived for three years ...

Long before the measles vaccine became the target of those who mistrust the science, a Boston researcher enthralled the world ...

The U.N. says Israel's 17-month-old military campaign in Gaza has created “largest cohort of child amputees in modern history ...

During the summers of the years after World War II, mothers dreaded fever in a child because these were the worst years of ...

“If you drop immunization rates low enough in various areas, polio could come back,” said Dr. Paul Offit, the director of the Vaccine Education Center at the Philadelphia Children’s Hospita ...

Children received polio vaccine doses at a camp for displaced people in Nuseirat Polio vaccine doses were administered at schools in Gaza City A polio vaccination drive in Gaza reached more than ...

GENEVA, Switzerland — A polio vaccination drive in Gaza reached more than 600,000 children, the head of the World Health Organization announced Thursday, saying a ceasefire allowed previously ...

A polio vaccination drive in Gaza reached more than 600,000 children, the head of the World Health Organization announced Thursday, saying a ceasefire allowed previously-missed children to receive ...