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 ...

The global endgame for polio has long been eradication, but recent events in the U.S. and around the world have raised questions about whether that lofty goal can be achieved, poliovirus experts say.

Polio is an endemic disease earlier known as infantile paralysis. Dr.Jonas Salk developed the first vaccine against polio. A crippling disease, polio, has been an endemic for thousands of years. A ...

DEAR DR. ROACH: I am a woman in my late 70s, a 1949 polio patient. For forever I have been told that because of poliomyelitis I cannot tolerate any preventive inoculations, including flu, pneumonia, ...

(CBS/AP) Think poliomyelitis is a thing of the past? Polio is still a threat in several countries, including Afghanistan, India, Nigeria, and Pakistan - and the World Health Organization is warning ...

AN ABNORMALLY elevated arterial blood A pressure has been a striking finding in over half the patients with acute paralytic poliomyelitis seen at the New York Hospital in the past two years. The ...

WHEN patients have severe airway obstruction or swallowing difficulties, as may occur with bulbar poliomyelitis, the insertion of a tracheostomy tube may be required to ensure a clear airway, to ...

Of the 15 million people around the world who have survived poliomyelitis, up to 80% report progressive deteriorating strength and endurance many years after infection. Researchers have found that ...

Poliomyelitis is caused by an enterovirus that in rare cases invades the nervous system and damages motor neurons, causing permanent disability, paralysis or death. Today, the disease has been ...

One of the major goals of the WHO is elimination of polio, but the nature of rapidly evolving enteroviruses makes this task more complex than it initially appears. The only natural hosts of poliovirus ...