Before polio vaccines became available in the 1950s, people wary of the disabling disease were afraid to allow their children outside, let alone go to school. As polio appears again decades after it ...

Researchers have pinpointed enterovirus as the likely cause of acute flaccid myelitis, the polio-like condition affecting young children across the country, according to a study published in Nature ...

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The CDC is investigating about 160 additional reports of children with possible acute flaccid myelitis, but are still puzzled by the sudden spike in cases, according to STAT. Health officials have ...

As a long-term infectious diseases doctor, I am dismayed at the return of vaccine-preventable diseases in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic. The first case of paralytic polio in the United States ...

Researchers found evidence of what might cause acute flaccid myelitis, known as AFM, a rare polio-like illness that affects children. According to a study published Monday in the journal Nature ...

Scientists are sure that infantile paralysis is caused by a virus. They have long known where to look for it—in the brain and spinal cord. But isolation of the elusive virus itself has led researchers ...