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.

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.

Before vaccines and public health triumphs, polio was the thing that kept parents up at night. During its peak from 1948 to 1955, the disease swept through towns across America, hitting children ...

While polio often struck children, older people were not immune. The disease consigned former President Franklin D. Roosevelt to a wheelchair.

Sally Sue Wiseheart Mercer, formerly of Shelbyville, was found dead in her Okemos, Mich., home on Feb. 27, 1968. Her cause of death was listed as bulbar polio. Friends and family mourned Mercer's ...

While the Salk vaccine mostly eliminated polio in Virginia, a surprise outbreak led to a new push for immunization in Richmond in 1963.

70 years after the first polio vaccine was licensed, Philly-area survivors stress importance of continued vaccination Dr. Jonas Salk is credited with creating the first polio vaccine at the University ...

Researchers are using virus-like particles to develop a safer, cheaper polio vaccine to help eradicate the disease once and for all.

A more affordable, lower-risk polio vaccine is on the horizon, research has found.

President Trump on Thursday took a swing at Senator Mitch McConnell’s battle with polio after the 82-year-old lawmaker voted against RFK, Jr.

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 ...

Progressive bulbar palsy (PBP) It is also known as progressive bulbar atrophy, due to injury of the upper motor neurons in the brainstem or the lower motor neurons connected to the brainstem.