Polio ravaged human bodies for hundreds of years, but the misery began to wane 70 years ago when two polio vaccines developed ...

The 1950s was a turning point for polio. Amid deadly outbreaks, Jonas Salk developed a vaccine that saved countless lives ...

Seventy years ago, a remarkable breakthrough changed the course of public health forever. On April 12, 1955, the world ...

The 70th anniversary celebration of the Salk polio vaccine took place Friday afternoon in the Teplitz Memorial Courtroom in ...

In “When Salvation Rode the Rails” (op-ed, April 2), Bob Greene uses a polio patient’s harrowing cross-country train ride with a malfunctioning chest respirator to pay tribute to those who ...

In some patients, however, the virus enters nerve cells in the brain or spine, where it multiplies and kills the cells that control muscle movement. When that happens, a polio sufferer experiences ...

Hospitals overflowed with disabled or severely ill patients, according to the National Library of Medicine. During the outbreak's peak in 1952, polio infections caused 20,000 cases of paralysis.

Back then, fear and doubt about polio were rampant. But the nation didn’t dwell on problems. We did what Americans always do ...

All 27 scientists at the CDC's viral hepatitis lab were told their duties were "unnecessary." Ongoing outbreak investigations ...