Most American parents today can't fathom the horror that summers brought during the first half of the 20th century. Summer meant polio season, and whole communities waited in dread for an outbreak to ...

The United States recorded its first polio case since 2013 earlier this month, sparking questions about a virus that, to many people, is a footnote in history. Most Americans were not alive in the ...

In the 1940s and ‘50s, when Wantagh resident Barbara Kitay was growing up in Bethpage, she lived in a world that feared the contagious paralysis-causing polio virus that targeted young children, saw ...

Picture a summer in Seattle where you can’t go to the pool. Or the beach. Or anywhere with water. Ahead of World Polio Day on Oct. 24, Diane Cohn remembers that’s what it was like when she was growing ...

News that polio is on the rise again in some areas is very disturbing. Today is Polio Awareness Day. I love that Polio Awareness Day is today because it would also have been my mother’s 95th birthday.

I learned about polio in medical school as a disease of history. When it was at its peak in the 1940s and early 1950s, parents were terrified that their children would be among the tens of thousands ...

A Texas man who spent most of his 78 years using an iron lung chamber and built a large following on social media, recounting his life from contracting polio in the 1940s to earning a law degree, has ...

DALLAS (AP) — A Texas man who spent most of his 78 years using an iron lung chamber and built a large following on social media, recounting his life from contracting polio in the 1940s to earning a ...