Fears of polio gripped the U.S. in the mid-20th century. Parents were afraid to send their children to birthday parties, public pools or any place where children mingled. Children in wheelchairs ...

It was like a horror movie. The invisible polio virus would strike, leaving young children on crutches, in wheelchairs or in a dreaded “iron lung” ventilator. Each summer, the fear was so great that ...

Attendees at a recent Rotary Club of Mount Pleasant meeting were brought up to speed on Rotary International's mission to rid the world of polio, which is currently endemic in only two countries: ...

AUSTIN, Texas — In the early 1950s, it was hard to avoid seeing the heartbreaking pictures in magazines and newspapers of children stricken with polio, a virus that struck fear in parents everywhere.

Seventy years ago, a remarkable breakthrough changed the course of public health forever. On April 12, 1955, the world received the news that Jonas Salk’s polio vaccine was “safe, effective and potent ...

Advertisements for freezers, lounge chairs and remedies for itching, gas and constipation were on the fifth page of Uniontown’s Evening Standard on April 16, 1952, which was a Wednesday. As they ...

By the 1970s, there were fewer than 10 cases of paralysis due to polio in the U.S., and the polio virus was considered eliminated from the U.S. by 1979. Since then, collective fear of the virus has ...