As polio appears again, decades after it was considered eliminated in the U.S., Americans unfamiliar with the dreaded disease need a primer on protecting themselves and their young children.

Mini Kamboj, Chief Medical Epidemiologist at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center (MSK), answers questions you may have about polio, the current outbreak, and how to best protect yourself. What is ...

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

Poliovirus is spreading in the wastewater in New York City, and the United States has already seen one case of paralytic polio. We cannot accept a low vaccination rate.

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

THIS report is an analysis primarily of the incidence and prognosis of the various syndromes usually grouped together under the general term "bulbar poliomyelitis." The bulbar forms of acute poliom ...

Here's what you need to know about the polio vaccine, including when your baby will get it and how it works.

Herpes, polio, the flu, HIV, rabies, COVID-19 and long COVID all have viral causes.

“Even a single case of polio is a threat,” opined New York State Health Commissioner Mary T. Bassette in an op-ed essay in The New York Times on Aug. 21.

What to know about vaccine-derived polio after rare case found in New York The oral vaccine contains a live virus that can infect others in rare cases.

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