The polio generation grew up with images of people in iron lungs and children in leg callipers, the memory of the previous polio epidemic in 1925 t

Listen to Eiléan Ní Chuilleanéin's The Polio Epidemic, read by Poetry Programme host Olivia O'Leary, and set to a series of haunting imag

According to the World Health Organization (WHO,) polio vaccines have helped reduce cases of the disease from more than 350,000 in 125 endemic coun

As a result, the total number of polio cases in the country has crossed 30 so far this year.

According to the World Health Organization (WHO,) polio vaccines have helped reduce cases of the disease from more than 350,000 in 125 endemic coun

In the 1950s, the polio virus terrified American families. Parents tried “social distancing”—ineffectively and out of fear.

Less than a century ago, polio was one of the most feared diseases in the United States, paralyzing and killing young people and leaving parents to

The fear and uncertainty surrounding the coronavirus pandemic may feel new to many of us.

India led the world in eradicating two silent killers and eliminating them from the country

The closures and cancellations bring back memories of the polio epidemic in the 1930s.

'Now as an old man, the fear I have of the coronavirus striking my family, friends, and the nation must be close to what my parents must have

My Aunt Cecelia was just beginning the eighth grade when it happened.

Dozens of polio outbreaks in the past few years have been linked to a polio vaccine that many nations abandoned in 2016.

The re-emergence of paralytic polio caused by mutated poliovirus derived from the OPV2 has been a major obstacle to achieving polio eradication acr

PESHAWAR: The health department postponed an anti-polio campaign in Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa (K-P), as the number of confirmed coronavirus cases in the c

TIMERGARA: The Lower Dir district health officer Dr Shaukat Ali confirmed that a new case of polio type II has been detected in Khall Koz Kaly.

While the idea of self-isolation is new for most of us, one Marlborough man remembers being in quarantine more than 75 years ago, during the polio

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TIMERGARA: The district health officer, Dr Shaukat Ali, on Monday confirmed that a new case of polio type II was detected in Khall Koz Kally area o

The next morning, her legs gave out as she tried to get out of bed. By that evening, she was so weak she could barely move.

According to details, more than 306850 children up to five years of age would be administered anti-polio drops during the four-day campaign startin

A boy receives polio vaccine drops, during an anti-polio campaign, in a low-income neighbourhood in Karachi, Pakistan.

As per details, the girl, who was diagnosed with the poliovirus, was previously administered polio vaccine during the anti-polio campaign.

To educate the American public about earlier health crises, PBS is currently streaming a 1998 documentary on the 1918 influenza epidemic, and on Ma