There’s a reason you rarely hear about people catching polio—let alone dying from the highly infectious disease—particularly in the U.S. And if you’re under the age of 70, you’ve likely never had to ...

Evidence that the virus is likely circulating in New York has reignited concerns over the disease. By Dani Blum During the slog of yet another Covid wave, and mounting monkeypox anxieties, health ...

Carol Ferguson (left) and Jim Smith, both of Pennsylvania, have post-polio syndrome, which is a condition that includes new muscle weakness, joint pain and other issues decades after survivors were ...

The PharmaJet Tropis Intradermal (ID) Needle-free System will be used exclusively to deliver vaccine to 1.8 million children in upcoming campaign. To date, 12+ million pediatric injections have been ...

Alexander Tin is a digital reporter for CBS News based in the Washington, D.C. bureau. He covers federal public health agencies. "Anyone seeking the Senate's consent to serve in the incoming ...

I am one of only two members of Congress who are polio survivors. In 1954, my father was a pediatrician in Memphis, Tennessee. As part of the worldwide effort to stop polio, he was given a limited ...

Officials say Pakistan has seen polio cases fall by more than half in 2025. That's a sign of progress in its eradication ...

Since 1988, cases of polio have fallen by more than 99%, and many observers predict that the disease could be eradicated within the next three years. However, eradication isn’t the same as extinction, ...

Health officials in New York have discovered a case of polio in an adult — the first case in the country since 2013. The good news is most people have nothing to worry about. "Unless you're ...

I contracted polio 25 years after the world already had Dr. Jonas Salk’s vaccine. I was living in poverty in India in 1980 in the Southern state of Tamil Nadu, and my birth mother hadn’t heard ...

A global partnership announced plans to spend more than $5 billion to eradicate poliovirus. By Apoorva Mandavilli As the world adjusts to the idea of coexisting with the coronavirus for the ...