President Franklin D. Roosevelt is perhaps the most famous polio sufferer and survivor. He was an adult when, in 1921, he was diagnosed with polio after awakening one morning unable to move his legs.

Regional Reference Laboratory for Polio Eradication notes the southern districts of KP remain areas of concern due to inaccessibility.

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 ...

More recently, researchers have found another aspect of the illness that’s a historical throwback. Enterovirus D-68 (EVD-68), which is a cousin of the enterovirus that causes polio, emerged as the ...

Doctors note that only one in 200 polio carriers displays signs of paralysis, making detection difficult without laboratory examination of stool specimens. “Immunisation remains the most ...

Minister for Health, Syed Mustafa Kamal has said that polio eradication is a national priority and Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif is personally overseeing its progress through regular review meetings.

AFM is caused by a virus that’s a cousin of the polio virus, earning it the nickname “the new polio.” Journalist and physician Eli Cahan joins Host Flora Lichtman to explain what doctors have been ...

LANCASTER − After turning 100 on May 29, Rita Competti is thought to be the oldest living polio survivor in the country and maybe even the world. "Yes, yes," she said.

Bandyopadhyay’s award is, in many ways, a tribute to teamwork — a theme he himself reiterates. Bandyopadhyay, 46, met Van Damme serendipitously in Brussels in 2014. At the time, Bandyopadhyay was ...

ISLAMABAD: Federal Minister for Health, Syed Mustafa Kamal, on Thursday claimed that Pakistan has witnessed over 99 per cent decline in polio cases. He was addressing the joint session of the Gavi ...

Pakistan Polio tally rises to 12 with new case in K-P's Bannu Child from Shams Khel, Bannu — southern K-P’s most polio-vulnerable zone — confirmed infected with wild poliovirus ...

ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif on Thursday taking strict notice of a polio case reported in the Diamer district, directed the relevant authorities to improve immunization further.