When her 5-year-old son’s legs stopped working and a doctor said the word “polio,” this writer felt a terror she never ...

Rotarians around the world are on a common mission. Eradicate Polio! Polio is a terrible disease affecting mostly children.

A lustrous scion of fin-de-siècle Vienna, she was born Alma Maria Schindler, the daughter of the operetta singer Anna Bergen ...

Dear 10-year-old Jack, I know you love Dad. He’s your best friend, your mentor — your hero. You do everything with him. He ...

Local 'rotary' club members also volunteered with Camborne Youth Council, planting lots of crocus bulbs which should give a carpet of purple under the trees in spring. All part of a rotary club ...

As global health experts emaphasise on eradicating the polio, poliovirus has been detected in environmental samples collected from all four provinces of Pakistan. This is the first time in 2025 ...

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 ...

ISLAMABAD: Environmental samples collected from 26 districts have confirmed the presence of wild poliovirus type 1 (WPV1) in those areas. An official of the Regional Reference Laboratory for Polio ...

A senior World Health Organization official cautioned Wednesday that the eradication of polio in Afghanistan and Pakistan, the only countries where the paralytic virus persists, is threatened by ...

Here is what we know about polio as a disease, its vaccines and the likely number of lives saved through inoculation. In its early stages, poliomyelitis — known as polio — causes fatigue ...