In the summer of 1955, Boston Children's Hospital, admitted more than 650 patients with polio, a disease with some striking simillarities to...
53 months ago

In 1956, Elvis Presley was photographed receiving the vaccine, and a young Diane Sawyer is pictured in an iron lung when she had the disease...
26 months ago

While the current COVID-19 pandemic has drawn comparisons to the Spanish flu of 1918-20, which killed millions worldwide, polio represents a...
54 months ago

Polio, short for poliomyelitis, is an infectious disease that is caused and transmitted by a virus called the poliovirus. Polio can cause paralysis and the...
81 months ago

87 years ago, in 1936, Tulsa Public Schools buildings were closing down. Tulsa schools would remain closed that year until Nov.
11 months ago

During the early 20th century, polio killed thousands of American children each summer and paralyzed many more. Now, as the world fights to...
144 months ago

An international research team developed two oral polio vaccines that protect mice and avoid some concerns with the current vaccines.
15 months ago

Our town, with a population of 5,000, suffered greatly from the polio epidemic, when 189 people were stricken, almost two dozen died and the...
50 months ago

The Philippine Department of Health (DOH) today announced an outbreak of polio in the country. A poliovirus case was confirmed on 16...
60 months ago

Evidence of the disease in a London sewer shows that without widespread vaccination, no country is immune from its horrors, Andrew Pollard,...
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