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

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

Children around the globe rely on UNICEF programs to survive, grow and thrive — programs that lift societies and make the ...

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

Polio, a disease that can cause lifelong paralysis, has been eliminated from the U.S. Experts fear a resurgence if lifesaving ...

The continued presence of poliovirus in the country not only endangers its own children but also threatens global eradication efforts. Unless the country intensifies its fight with a more ...

A police officer working on Pakistan’s first polio vaccination drive of the year was shot and killed by unidentified gunmen.

While Pakistani leadership remains busy in political tussles and turmoil within the factions, children of the country ...

No locally transmitted cases of polio have been recorded in Singapore since 1978. Read more at straitstimes.com.

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 ...