For decades, global efforts to eradicate polio have relied on a deceptively simple tool: a few drops of orangey-red liquid ...

Attendees at a recent Rotary Club of Mount Pleasant meeting were brought up to speed on Rotary International's mission to rid the world of polio, which is currently endemic in only two countries: ...

Fears of polio gripped the U.S. in the mid-20th century. Parents were afraid to send their children to birthday parties, public pools or any place where children mingled. Children in wheelchairs ...

AUSTIN, Texas — In the early 1950s, it was hard to avoid seeing the heartbreaking pictures in magazines and newspapers of children stricken with polio, a virus that struck fear in parents everywhere.

Postdoctoral Research Associate, School of Infection and Immunity, University of Glasgow A ten-month-old boy in the Gaza Strip was recently paralysed by poliovirus – the first such case in the region ...

A global initiative for stamping out polio has called for more than €2 billion in additional funding to eliminate the highly infectious virus by 2029. The Global Polio Eradication Initiative (GPEI)’s ...

By the 1970s, there were fewer than 10 cases of paralysis due to polio in the U.S., and the polio virus was considered eliminated from the U.S. by 1979. Since then, collective fear of the virus has ...