Even people with mild infections can experience post-polio syndrome (PPS) decades later. Symptoms of this non-contagious disease include joint pain, muscle weakness, and mental and physical fatigue.

This can affect up to 5 in 100 people with polio. About 1 in 200 people with polio can get paralysis. And around 1 in 10 may die from respiratory failure --- the virus stops your breathing muscles.

On Aug. 27, the Rutland Daily Herald reported that doctors believed an epidemic of cerebral meningitis, spinal meningitis and cerebro-spinal meningitis had hit the city and surrounding area. Over the ...

ATLANTA — 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’ ...

Polio is an infection caused by a virus that mostly affects children under 5. Most people infected with polio don’t have any symptoms, but it can cause fever, headaches, vomiting and stiffness ...

Atlanta-area people living with post-polio maladies worry that a climate of anti-vaccine skepticism could set back the United States’ success in eliminating viruses like polio and measles, ...

The polio vaccine has all but obliterated the illness that once killed thousands and paralyzed 15,000 people nationwide every year. Polio is a deadly disease with a vaccine that RFK Jr.’s ...

Before the first vaccine was developed in the 1950s, polio was among the most feared diseases. An explosive 1916 outbreak in New York killed more than 2,000 people and the worst recorded U.S ...

There’s a reason you rarely hear about people catching polio—let alone dying from the highly infectious disease—particularly in the U.S. And if you’re under the age of 70, you’ve likely ...