It was 1959 and Duguay, of Clearwater, Florida, had polio. It mostly preyed on children and was one of the most feared ...

Before the vaccines, such illnesses were the main reason why nearly one in five children in 1900 never made it to their fifth ...

These illnesses were the main reason why nearly one in five children in 1900 never made it to their fifth birthday. Over the ...

Polio spreads fast, and is only symptomatic in one out of every 200 cases – but in those cases, the infection often leads to irreversible disability. Among the paralysed, 5–10% die when their ...

An avian flu outbreak that pushed egg prices higher is finally winding down. Polio reemerged in New York. And then there’s SARS-CoV-2, which is still infecting about 93,000 people a day in the U.S.

Before vaccines and public health triumphs, polio was the thing that kept parents up at night. During its peak from 1948 to 1955, the disease swept through towns across America, hitting children ...

President Franklin D. Roosevelt is perhaps the most famous polio sufferer and survivor. He was an adult when, in 1921, he was diagnosed with polio after awakening one morning unable to move his legs.

More recently, researchers have found another aspect of the illness that’s a historical throwback. Enterovirus D-68 (EVD-68), which is a cousin of the enterovirus that causes polio, emerged as the ...