New York on Thursday had its first recorded polio case in more than a decade, bringing back bad memories for a generation that remembers when the disease was a scourge. Polio, or poliomyelitis, is a ...

LONDON (Reuters) -Germany has found the wild polio virus in a sewage sample in Hamburg, the first such detection in Europe since 2010. Polio, short for poliomyelitis, is an infectious disease that ...

(CNN) — While Robert F. Kennedy Jr., President Donald Trump’s pick to lead the US Department of Health and Human Services, has backpedaled on his anti-vaccine rhetoric during his Senate confirmation ...

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 ...

A two-year-old child from Meghalaya’s West Garo Hills district reportedly tested positive for polio in 2025, a highly contagious and potentially fatal disease that once crippled millions before being ...

PROVIDENCE, R.I. (WPRI) — Joann was 8 years old when her life changed forever. “I was in third grade, and one morning I got up, my mother said, ‘go brush your teeth and get ready for school,'” she ...