It was 1959 and Duguay, of Clearwater, Florida, had polio. It mostly preyed on children and was one of the most feared ...

Columnist Patrice Apodaca talks to a pediatric infectious diseases expert about why measles outbreaks among children are a ...

Four cases of measles were recently reported in the commonwealth, prompting health officials to discuss the importance of ...

These illnesses were the main reason why nearly one in five children in 1900 never made it to their fifth birthday. Over the ...

In the time before widespread vaccination, young children often became disabled or lost their lives to whooping cough, ...