Before vaccines and public health triumphs, polio was the thing that kept parents up at night. During its peak from 1948 to 1955, the disease swept through towns across America, hitting children the ...
SIMON: And do we know how widespread polio could now be in Gaza? 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 ...
In its original form, the virus survives in just two countries. But a type linked to an oral vaccine used in other nations has already turned up in the West. By Apoorva Mandavilli Most American ...