In media interviews and countless speeches, Dr. Gallo, emeritus director of the Institute of Human Virology in Baltimore, ...

Indian-Americans who remember life before the polio vaccine are worried about what RFK Jr. could do in the U.S.

While polio particularly targeted children, others could contract the virus as well. When teenagers and young adults remained ...

Hollywood director Francis Ford Coppola recalls the "horror" of surviving childhood polio amid questions about the future of ...

As Hyderabad struggles to contain the poliovirus, the lack of accountability and failures of government officials trigger ...

My mom's memories of her paralytic polio are just one reason I worry about progress Robert F. Kennedy Jr. could undo, writes ...

Only by working together to find compromise on parts of the president-elect’s agenda can we make progress for Americans who ...

Readers recount their experiences with polio and admonish attempts to revoke vaccine approval.

As part of the worldwide effort to stop polio, he was given a limited number of Salk vaccines to give to second graders. ...

I can still picture our mother telling the neighbors about the diagnosis.

Polio might seem like a disease of the distant past, but I know its dangers firsthand. To revoke governmental approval of the ...

In the early 1950s, before the polio vaccine, I caught it one summer. I spent time in an isolation ward, could not move and ...