Acute flaccid paralysis in children is a medical emergency that can progress to respiratory failure within hours or days, ...

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.

During the summer of 1944, children under the age of 14 could not participate in some of their usual activities due to a polio outbreak in the Louisville area.

“Because Montana’s communities, health officials and Polio Pioneers played an essential role in demonstrating the efficacy of the Salk-type polio vaccine, this crippling disease was eradicated ...

Green parks beckoned to picnickers; yellow Lake Erie beaches glittered with summer sun. At Municipal Stadium the first-place Indians turned out for baseball. But Cleveland seemed not to notice.