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 ...
Urgent polio boosters for London children What is polio and how can you protect yourself ... regaining the ability to cause paralysis - and genetic analysis suggests the virus has been spreading.
Though less common, polio can also circulate when people consume ... polio from community transmission; the CDC confirmed genetic sequencing had tied New York wastewater samples to those in ...
It's a paradox of public health that being too clean can sometimes lead to disease. For centuries, infants were routinely exposed to the poliovirus in their unsanitary living conditions.