Polio has been a common childhood vaccine since the 1950s, but do adults need a polio booster? Infectious disease experts ...

DALLAS (AP) — A Texas man who spent most of his 78 years using an iron lung chamber and built a large following on social media, recounting his life from contracting polio in the 1940s to earning a ...

Decades after polio invaded his youth and almost took his life, Dr. Lauro Halstead is struggling with a second punch from the disease. Halstead is one of 125,000 Americans suffering from post-polio ...

Picture a summer in Seattle where you can’t go to the pool. Or the beach. Or anywhere with water. Ahead of World Polio Day on Oct. 24, Diane Cohn remembers that’s what it was like when she was growing ...