She came home with a high temperature, feeling very ill. The next morning, her legs gave out when she tried to get out of bed ...

She came home with a high temperature, feeling very ill. The next morning, her legs gave out when she tried to get out of bed ...

People born before 1957 are so likely to have had measles, mumps and rubella (German measles) that they are assumed to be ...

"I lost almost all of my hearing from measles. It was horrible. I was so sick. I missed so much of second grade that I went ...

The National Polio Surveillance Project was launched in the 90s aimed at conducting polio eradication activities in India ...

She came home with a high temperature, feeling very ill. The next morning, her legs gave out when she tried to get out of bed. By that evening, she was ...

He pumped his wife’s respirator with a beer-can opener.

Polio ravaged human bodies for hundreds of years, but the misery began to wane 70 years ago when two polio vaccines developed in the U.S. halted the virus’ spread.

DEAR DR. ROACH: I am a baby boomer who was born in 1949. I was vaccinated against polio as soon as it was available, and I was most likely exposed to measles and whooping cough. It was during the ...

I lived in a poor, Black community in Winston Salem, North Carolina, and was one of two children in 1959 who contracted polio as a result of getting the oral vaccine. I also had measles, tonsillitis ...

Artscape CEO Marlene le Roux, a polio survivor denied access to vaccine as a child due to apartheid policies, is fighting for ...