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.

70 years after the first polio vaccine was licensed, Philly-area survivors stress importance of continued vaccination Dr. Jonas Salk is credited with creating the first polio vaccine at the University ...

Post-polio syndrome (PPS) affects between 25% and 40% of polio survivors years after the initial infection. It’s characterized by new weakening in muscles previously affected by polio, as well ...

Over 200 polio workers and security staff have been killed in the last 15 years. And yet, in 2024, we saw another surge. We had 73 cases last year but the actual spread was much wider.

Health workers vaccinate a 2-year-old child during a polio vaccination campaign in January 2015 in a rural area of Tehsil Fateh Jang, Punjab in Pakistan. Credit: Wikimedia Commons/ CDC Global ...

Until the vaccine, polio outbreaks paralyzed more than 15,000 people, mostly children, annually but decreased to less than 10 a year in the 1970s. Experts say that the virus can return on a large ...

There are an estimated 300,000 polio survivors in the United States. For some, the nomination of Robert F. Kennedy Jr. as health secretary is reviving their painful memories.

L ast month it was reported that Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s lawyer, Aaron Siri, had petitioned the U.S. Food and Drug Administration to revoke approval of the polio vaccine. Lobbying to stop ...

I contracted polio when I was 15 or 18 months old and lost some power on my right lower limb,” said K.M. Venkat Narayan, a professor of global health at Emory University.

As in the case of polio, which is seeing a resurgence worldwide, with environmental samples and human cases throwing up both wild polio virus as well as vaccine-derived polio virus.

Regarding the safety of the polio vaccine, the Louisiana Department of Health assures that the long-standing vaccine safety system in the U.S. ensures that vaccines are as safe as possible ...

1:41 Doctors cite concern over polio vaccine politics in U.S. Polio, a highly contagious viral infection that can cause paralysis and death, has been eradicated in Canada for decades thanks to ...