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

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 ...

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.

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.

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 ...

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.

Polio came for 5-year-old Lynn Lane when she was visiting her grandmother in rural Indiana. Suddenly, her arms and legs became weak, and by the time she got to a hospital in Indianapolis, she was ...

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 ...

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 ...