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 ...

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 ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. The polio virus has been found in New York ...

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 ...

STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. — A 20-year-old Rockland County man who tested positive for polio had recently traveled to Poland and Hungary, a health official told the Washington Post. Doctors initially ...

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 ...