President Donald Trump seemed to question a well-documented part of Sen. Mitch McConnell's life -- his childhood battle with ...

South Sudan, in partnership with United Nations agencies, launched the fourth round of the polio vaccination campaign, with ...

South Sudan, in partnership with United Nations agencies, launched the fourth round of the polio vaccination campaign on ...

Sen. Mitch McConnell brought up his history as a polio survivor on Thursday in explaining why he voted against making Robert ...

On January 20, 2025, the United States government issued an executive order to withdraw from membership of the World Health Organization (WHO). This has raised apprehensions that reduced funding ...

It is a common belief that cataracts only occur in the eyes of older people. However, babies and children can be born with cataracts, or they may develop them as they age. A congenital cataract causes ...

In its early stages, poliomyelitis — known as polio — causes fatigue, headaches, stiffness and limb pain after exposure to the poliovirus, according to the World Health Organization ...

Polio is highly contagious and can spread easily from person to person. The poliovirus causes polio, short for poliomyelitis. The virus can live in your throat and digestive system. It enters the body ...

Poliomyelitis was responsible for paralysing and killing up to half a million people every year before the development of the poliovirus vaccine in 1955. By 2000, through mass vaccination ...

poliomyelitis paralyzed and killed up to half a million people every year. By 2000, mass vaccination campaigns, armed with new types of oral polio vaccines, had almost eradicated wild poliovirus ...