After decades of American children routinely receiving polio vaccines, the virus that had doomed many to paralysis was nearly eliminated in the United States. But vaccine avoidance today may allow the ...

The spread of polio has been declared a global health emergency, the World Health Organization said Monday. The disease, predominately spread by travelers, has also been proven difficult to monitor ...

Polio ravaged human bodies for hundreds of years, but the misery began to wane 70 years ago when two polio vaccines developed in the U.S. halted the virus' spread. Many Georgians who caught polio in ...