Members of the Post Polio Network volunteer at a recent health and disability fair in New Hope, Pa. Jim Smith was only 2 years old when he suddenly became paralyzed from the neck down. It was 1945, ...

After the election, President Donald Trump named Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to lead the Department of Health and Human Services. For decades, Kennedy has publicly opposed vaccines, and has involved himself ...

There’s a reason you rarely hear about people catching polio—let alone dying from the highly infectious disease—particularly in the U.S. And if you’re under the age of 70, you’ve likely never had to ...

If anyone should have lobbied against the use of vaccines in this country, it was my family. My Aunt Jean, my father’s older sister, was a victim of the infamous Cutter vaccine, an early variant of ...

American tourists are being warned to travel at their own risk as a ravaging polio virus rampages across the globe, ...

The European Regional Commission for the Certification of Poliomyelitis Eradication (RCC) has warned that Europe’s long-held polio-free status could be at risk due to inadequately enforced and ...

October 24 is marked as World Polio Day. It was in 1988 that the World Health Assembly began taking steps to eradicate this disease. There has been massive success achieved on that front up till now.

While polio may seem like a disease of the past, its eradication is still unfinished business—and one of the most ambitious global health undertakings in history. In honor of World Polio Day on ...

Polio remains only in the global regions where vaccine rates are low. The U.S. should take heed.

That is why finding, counting, and planning for every child is not preparation for the real work. It is the real work,” he ...