The Republican senator’s childhood bout with the disease has informed his ardent support for vaccines amid increasing ...

Unidentified gunmen shot and killed on Monday a police officer working on Pakistan’s first polio vaccination drive of the ...

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

When her 5-year-old son’s legs stopped working and a doctor said the word “polio,” this writer felt a terror she never ...

Stricken with polio in 1944, 2-year-old Mitch McConnell spent his days confined to bed or undergoing a strict physical therapy regimen to rehabilitate his left leg at an age when most toddlers ...

HOUSTON — A Houston man has been charged with endangering a child for sending a special needs 4-year-old to school with a ...

With 16 districts infected, Punjab faces significant risks of poliovirus transmission, particularly from regions where the virus remains endemic. In response, Punjab is set to launch the first ...

We've snatched defeat from the jaws of victory," said Zulfiqar Bhutta, of the Hospital for Sick Children in Toronto, Canada. The reason, Bhutta writes in a commentary in The Lancet, is that polio ...

Charging documents allege a Pasadena ISD guardian placed a loaded handgun in the backpack of his special needs 4-year-old ...