Polio is not endemic in the United States, but the disease is circulating in 30 other countries now. A doctor explains how to ...

So far, there's been just one recent case of polio in the United States, which paralyzed a young adult in Rockland County, New York. One case -- and evidence in sewage of more spread -- may not sound ...

When 13-year-old music prodigy Itzhak Perlman performed on "The Ed Sullivan Show" in 1958, viewers could see his extraordinary talent. What they couldn't see were the braces and crutches he needed to ...

Bill Harris knows full well the perils that polio can cause. Having suffered through the illness at age 12, it took Harris a year and a half to fully recover. Through the Rotary Club, Harris, now 86, ...

Global health alerts are up for polio. The CDC warns travellers to take extra care. Poliovirus is detected in many countries.

Re “Kennedy Aide Filed to Revoke Shot for Polio” (front page, Dec. 16): A lawyer who is not a doctor but is advising Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has asked the F.D.A. to withdraw approval of the current ...

Since its inception in 1988, Global Polio Eradication Initiative efforts have helped eradicate different types of wild polioviruses so that the last remaining wild strain, type 1, is now largely ...

President-elect Donald Trump’s choice for health secretary has suggested that the polio vaccine cost more lives than it saved and that the vaccine did not wipe out the disease in the U.S. By Christina ...