Make America Healthy Again is making a mistake by minimizing the importance of the polio vaccine, which was celebrated by Americans when it emerged in 1955.

The CDC’s travel advisory includes the United Kingdom, Germany, Pakistan and 27 other countries. How concerned should you be?

As a child, Catharine Coleborne’s mother spent a year in bed with polio. Stories like hers reveal why we can’t afford to go backwards on vaccination.

This 1960 photograph depicts a nurse caring for a patient of a Rhode Island polio epidemic inside an Emerson respirator, also referred to as an iron lung. Devices like these were used by polio ...

BLANTYRE, Malawi (AP) — In a classroom in southern Malawi, children sit in rows on the floor as a health worker moves among them administering an oral vaccine that protects against polio. The new ...

Physicians have yet to identify the mysterious polio-like illness that has paralyzed more than 100 children across 34 states since last summer, according to a USA Today report. The cases mark the ...

While polio may seem like a disease of the past, its eradication is still unfinished business—and one of the most ambitious global health undertakings in history. In honor of World Polio Day on ...

The virus can lead to a debilitating neurological condition. Children with asthma are at higher risk of getting this rare illness. A respiratory virus that in rare cases can cause polio-like paralysis ...

MOORPARK, Calif. (KABC) -- A 2-year old boy in Moorpark has become the latest child to be diagnosed with a mysterious virus that public health officials are now calling "California polio-like syndrome ...