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 ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

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.

In August 2024, the Palestinian Health Ministry confirmed the first polio case in the territory in a partially paralyzed 10-month-old boy, marking the first confirmed case of the highly infectious ...