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 ...

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.

BATRAWY: Well, there's already been a case confirmed in a 10-month-old baby boy who was active and crawling, and he's now paralyzed in one leg after contracting polio. And he is the first case of ...

His legs were limp and weak, ... I never thought about polio until 2013, when I was a medical student and my grandfather — then in his 90s — began to wither away from post-polio syndrome.