As a child, Catharine Coleborne’s mother spent a year in bed with polio. Stories like hers reveal why we can’t afford to go backwards on vaccination.

The CDC’s travel advisory includes the United Kingdom, Germany, Pakistan and 27 other countries. How concerned should you be?

Polio is not endemic in the United States, but the disease is circulating in 30 other countries now. A doctor explains how to protect against polio when traveling.

When 13-year-old music prodigy Itzhak Perlman performed on "The Ed Sullivan Show" in 1958, viewers could see his extraordinary talent. What they couldn't see were the braces and crutches he needed to ...

Survivors say US healthcare system not ready for new cases – ‘the only thing to fix polio is the polio vaccine’ With preventable infectious diseases surging and a top US vaccines adviser saying all ...

The CDC has issued a travel warning due to polio spreading in 32 countries worldwide, including several European, African, and Middle Eastern nations, as cases of circulating poliovirus spread. Find ...

Pakistan’s National Emergency Operations Center for Polio Eradication (NEOC) on Thursday confirmed the first wild polio case of 2026 in a four-year-old child from Bello Union Council, Sujawal district ...

A huge vaccination drive has been launched after the country’s first outbreak in years of the paralysing disease. But the battle to wipe out the virus is struggling elsewhere, so how can it be ...

Pakistan’s National Emergency Operations Centre for Polio Eradication (NEOC) confirmed the first wild polio case of 2026 in a four-year-old child from Bello Union Council in Sindh’s Sujawal District ...

A global resurgence of polio “poses a risk” to Irelands polio-free status, the State’s infectious diseases watchdog has said. Polio is a highly infectious viral disease that largely affects children ...