:: "They are currently vaccinating our children from polio, a simple disease to treat, but every day they are killing them. There is no protection for them, in just a short few hours the ceasefire ...

After decades of American children routinely receiving polio vaccines, the virus that had doomed many to paralysis was nearly ...

KANSAS CITY, Mo. -- Sharon McKinney was only 6 years old when she began complaining about a fever and a headache. The diagnosis was polio. After spending several months in a hospital in 1948, she ...

This 1960 photograph depicts a nurse caring for a patient of a Rhode Island polio epidemic inside an Emerson respirator, also referred to as an iron lung. Devices like these were used by polio ...

This article was originally featured in Undark. Brad Fuller was a toddler when he contracted polio in 1952 and was sent to a hospital miles from his northeast Pennsylvania home. He stayed there for ...