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 ...

This is Part I in a series on the enteroviruses that appear to cause a polio-like neurological disease, Acute Flaccid Myelitis. Reports of this life-threatening condition have increased within the US ...

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) recently asked health departments and clinicians to watch for symptoms of acute flaccid myelitis in kids, especially through November. That's when ...

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 ...

Within days, the boy went from having cold symptoms to being unable to walk. To Peter Wright, a pediatric infectious diseases physician at Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center, it looked similar to ...

A case report published in the New England Journal of Medicine provides evidence that enterovirus D68 directly infects spinal cord neurons and that a corresponding robust immune response is present—a ...

Back in 2022, everyone was surprised (and a little uneasy) when the news was announced that a man in New York had contracted poliovirus (polio, for short). After all, don't all children receive the ...