I am one of only two members of Congress who are polio survivors. If Kennedy rolls back the vaccine's approval, many will ...

My mom's memories of her paralytic polio are just one reason I worry about progress Robert F. Kennedy Jr. could undo, writes ...

In media interviews and countless speeches, Dr. Gallo, emeritus director of the Institute of Human Virology in Baltimore, ...

In the early 1950s, before the polio vaccine, I caught it one summer. I spent time in an isolation ward, could not move and ...

As August approached in the summer of 1952, I was looking forward to returning for second grade at Holy Rosary Elementary in ...

The senior official added, “We believe some cases in Afghanistan are not reported. They don’t collect samples from paralyzed children. In contrast, every union council in Pakistan is required to send ...

St. Louis city has some of the lowest vaccination rates in the state. But counties across all parts of Missouri have also ...

Throughout history, immunisation has helped protect millions of children against infectious and life-threatening diseases. Immunisation helps to strengthen your child’s immune system to fight diseases ...

Thanks to Dan Rodricks for highlighting the efforts of one childhood polio survivor to remind us of the importance of ...

Steve Cohen and Mitch McConnell are the only polio survivors in Congress. Cohen criticizes Trump's pick for health secretary, Robert Kennedy Jr.

While polio particularly targeted children, others could contract the virus as well. When teenagers and young adults remained ...

On an August morning in 1949 when I was 6, I got out of bed and collapsed on the floor. By evening, I was paralyzed from the neck down and ...