On April 12, 1955, researchers announced the first polio vaccine, which was instantly approved. Before vaccines were available, polio caused 15,000 cases of paralysis in the US each year. The US ...

Washington West African Center to host free Health Insurance Enrollment and Vaccine Clinic with support from City of Lynnwood ...

With a single case of paralytic polio detected in Rockland County, New York, and the virus showing up in wastewater samples in two counties in the state, as well as New York City, health officials say ...

Advertisements for freezers, lounge chairs and remedies for itching, gas and constipation were on the fifth page of Uniontown’s Evening Standard on April 16, 1952, which was a Wednesday. As they ...

ISLAMABAD (AP) — Pakistan reported fewer than half as many cases of polio in 2025 than the previous year, a sign of progress ...

Three more children have been hospitalized with what could be a rare, polio-like illness, The Seattle Times reports. The state health department says two children are from King County and one is from ...

Robert F. Kennedy Jr., President-elect Donald Trump's nominee to be secretary of Health and Human Services, arrives to meet with Sen. Markwayne Mullin, R-Okla., a member of the Senate Committee on ...

U.K. health authorities have said they are urgently investigating a rare polio virus outbreak in sewage samples in London. Wastewater surveillance in east London discovered a number of samples had ...

JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) — The World Health Organization has declared Indonesia’s polio outbreak officially over, following nearly three years of intensive response efforts, officials said Friday.

GENEVA, Jan. 12 -- Polio cases rose by more than half worldwide last year after a vaccine boycott in Nigeria led to a resurgence of the disease across Africa, the World Health Organization said ...