Researchers are using virus-like particles to develop a safer, cheaper polio vaccine to help eradicate the disease once and for all.

Recent human trials of a new one-year-long immune-based treatment for post-polio syndrome, which can strike polio survivors years after the initial infection and be very debilitating, have ...

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

Polio cases are surging in both countries. Can Pakistan and Afghanistan collaborate on eradicating the virus, even as their relations have soured?

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.

A doctor and professor explains how we have forgotten the contagious and painful symptoms of Polio.

Move by RFK Jr.'s lawyer Aaron Siri to revoke polio vaccine approval a jolt to Americans of Indian ancestry. India eliminated polio just a decade ago.

Robert F. Kennedy previously voiced his opposition to the polio vaccine, an immunization which eradicated the polio virus in the U.S. Find out more.

Robert F. Kennedy previously voiced his opposition to the polio vaccine, an immunization which eradicated the polio virus in the U.S. Find out more.

The polio vaccine has all but obliterated the illness that once killed thousands and paralyzed 15,000 people nationwide every year.

But polio is one of the world's most infectious diseases and is still spreading in a small number of countries. The WHO and its partners want to eradicate polio in the next few years.