Polio is in the news, with vaccination under threat and recent outbreaks. This makes Alan Marshall’s classic disability ...

Polio is short for "poliomyelitis," a neurological disease caused by a poliovirus infection. Of the three types of wild poliovirus — serotypes 1, 2, and 3 — serotype 1 is the most virulent and ...

Before vaccines and public health triumphs, polio was the thing that kept parents up at night. During its peak from 1948 to ...

Polio, short for Poliomyelitis, is a disabling and life-threatening disease that can infect a person’s spinal cord, causing paralysis. Artifacts suggest the disease has existed since ancient ...

The paralyzing effects of polio. Polio, short for poliomyelitis, is a highly contagious viral infection mainly affecting children under 5. It targets nerves in the spinal cord or brain stem.

Polio in his left leg, no money for father’s last rites, once sold bangles, cracked UPSC exam, became IAS officer with AIR… now is posted at ...

There's one confirmed case. And likely hundreds more. As experts try to ID the source of the virus in Gaza, a huge vaccine effort has wrapped up stage 1 and gears up for the critical stage 2.

There are two types of polio vaccines: the inactivated poliovirus vaccine (IPV), which is injected in the arm or leg and uses a killed poliovirus to teach the body to recognize and attack the ...

As a physician, I already knew about the short and long-term effects of polio and the terrible, ... worrying about keeping her balance since one leg is shorter than the other.

So in short: Most people who get polio don’t know they have it—but they can still pass it on. That’s what makes surveillance and vaccination super important.

A 10-month-old baby contracted polio and is now paralyzed in one leg. It’s the first confirmed case of polio in Gaza ... What does this mean for the global effort to eradicate polio? The short ...