It was 1959 and Duguay, of Clearwater, Florida, had polio. It mostly preyed on children and was one of the most feared ...

Polio Vaccine's Proud Pioneers. ... We’ve made great progress in a short time,” said Dr. Steve Cochi, ... he was diagnosed with polio after awakening one morning unable to move his legs.

Here you had a swath of children coming in, and their manifestation of disease looked a lot like polio, which is something that certainly one generation, at least multiple generations of doctors ...

Before the vaccines, such illnesses were the main reason why nearly one in five children in 1900 never made it to their fifth ...

These illnesses were the main reason why nearly one in five children in 1900 never made it to their fifth birthday. Over the ...

Paralysis that comes with polio results in the lack of any ability to move one or more arms or legs. All sensation is still there. What is missing and gone forever is the ability to move the limb(s).

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

Before vaccines and public health triumphs, polio was the thing that kept parents up at night. During its peak from 1948 to 1955, the disease swept through towns across America, hitting children ...

PESHAWAR, Pakistan: Pakistan efforts to eliminate polio suffered another blow on Monday after a northern enclave reported its first case in seven years. Overall, it was the country’s 11th case ...

The virus detected in a child from district of Diamer in the Gilgit-Baltistan region A health worker administers a polio vaccine to a child at a neighbourhood, in Lahore, Pakistan, Monday, May 26 ...

More recently, researchers have found another aspect of the illness that’s a historical throwback. Enterovirus D-68 (EVD-68), which is a cousin of the enterovirus that causes polio, emerged as the ...