His earliest memory is the day he left the polio treatment center for the final time. Of course, Addison’s weak left leg prevented him from running as fast as other children. Instead of dreaming of ...

Data on the number of cases for these diseases from the pre-vaccine era is hard to come by, and even the case counts are ...

Expanded humanitarian access during the ongoing ceasefire in Gaza has significantly improved the quality and reach of polio vaccinations in the enclave, the World Health Organization (WHO) said Friday ...

Mohamed Abid dreams of becoming a pilot to fly high in the sky, but the small boy finds his wings clipped. The 12-year-old polio victim from the north-western Pakistani town of Mardan can barely ...

The United Nations said Friday that a five-day polio vaccination campaign has vaccinated over 600,000 Palestinian children in Gaza under the age of 10 against the disease.

17, 1970, about two cases that year, including one that led to the death of a 1-year-old boy. A prolific book reviewer for the paper, he wrote about “Margin of Safety,” a history of the polio ...