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 ...

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 ...

What Is the Polio Vaccine? The polio vaccine or shot helps stop the spread of polio. The U.S. uses the inactivated polio vaccine (IPV). It's one of two types of polio vaccinations to prevent ...

Mitch McConnell's life -- his childhood battle with polio -- after the Kentucky Republican ... including the instruction to not let the boy walk as they thought it would impede his recovery.

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.

It aims to vaccinate more than 591,000 children under 10, the WHO said. A mass polio vaccination campaign is set to continue in Gaza after the virus was recently detected in wastewater samples.

Pakistan’s first nationwide polio campaign of 2025 launched the first week of February, aiming to vaccinate over 45.4 million children under the age of 5 in 159 of the country's 166 districts.