The first known victim of polio lived and died in the 14th century B.C., during Egypt’s 18th dynasty. He is immortalized on a carved limestone slab, the Stele of Roma the Doorkeeper. In the carving, ...

CNN — My mother never got to buy shoes. At least not in that obsessive, stereotypically female way we see in shows like Sex and the City. She contracted polio in her native Argentina in 1941 when she ...

Kimberly Witt is an Iowa transplant placing roots in St. Paul, Minnesota, where she and her husband parent two young adult sons born in Ethiopia. Growing up, my siblings and I would occasionally get ...

I contracted polio in 1953 and was put into a contagion ward. My cousin also had polio and it attacked his lungs. He was put in an iron lung, and it was (a) death sentence and he lived for three years ...

For the best experience, please enable JavaScript in your browser settings. Kenya Re Managing Director Jadiah Mwarania buys goods from Joyce Njuguna, a beneficiary of ...

New York health officials are warning about the likely spread of polio after the virus was detected in wastewater in New York City, Rockland County and Orange County. Rockland County health officials ...

She contracted polio in her native Argentina in 1941 when she was two years old, more than a decade before the polio vaccine was invented by Jonas Salk. As her body grew, so did her affected leg, but ...