Polio primarily infects children under 5 and has done so around the globe for millennia. According to WHO, children with “withered limbs,” a hallmark of the ailment, are shown using canes in ...

D epending on how young you are, your mother may remember polio. Your grandmother, though, would likely shudder at the mere mention of the word, which for years evoked images of iron lungs, of ...

World Health Organization and partners have been derailed by mismanagement and blind allegiance to an outdated strategy.

The World Health Organization has closed in on its bold goal of eradicating polio several times, but the paralytic virus is ...

Polio was “the most feared disease in the world” throughout the late 19th and early 20th centuries, WHO says. It killed or paralyzed more than half a million people every year by the mid-20th ...