Dedicated health workers crossed Pakistan to reach 45 million children in one week with the lifesaving polio vaccine, with support from UNICEF and Rotary International.

Recent human trials of a new one-year-long immune-based treatment for post-polio syndrome, which can strike polio survivors years after the initial infection and be very debilitating, have ...

A nationwide immunization campaign backed by UNICEF and partners kicked off this month in Pakistan, one of the last two countries where wild poliovirus remains endemic.

Here is what we know about polio as a disease, its vaccines and the likely number of lives saved through inoculation.

Polio cases are surging in both countries. Can Pakistan and Afghanistan collaborate on eradicating the virus, even as their relations have soured?

Polio, a disease that can cause lifelong paralysis, has been eliminated from the U.S. Experts fear a resurgence if lifesaving vaccines are revoked under the new administration ...

RAPIDLY progressive bulbar spinal poliomyelitis in a patient with pregnancy at or near term may pose difficult problems. If spontaneous labor occurs during the acute phase of the illness and the pr ...

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

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

Last week a second (and fully confirmed) case turned up: James Thomson, 15, of Mount Vernon, Wash, died of bulbar polio three months after getting his third Salk shot.

Robert F. Kennedy previously voiced his opposition to the polio vaccine, an immunization which eradicated the polio virus in the U.S. Find out more.

The polio vaccine has all but obliterated the illness that once killed thousands and paralyzed 15,000 people nationwide every year.