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

Roosevelt — who had also been diagnosed with the paralyzing disease — established a polio treatment center. Two years after contracting polio, and roughly a decade before the nation’s first polio ...

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 ...

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In 1988, more than 300,000 cases of wild polio were reported across 125 countries. By 2023, the numbers had dropped to 12 cases in just two countries: Afghanistan and Pakistan. Yet, in recent months, ...

The Lagos State Government, through the Lagos State Primary Health Care Board, on Saturday flagged off the 2025 Polio Outbreak [FILES] Polio vaccination The Lagos State Government, through the ...

Their concerns weren’t unfounded. Polio is a debilitating disease that invades the body’s nervous system, and prior to the invention of the polio vaccine, it claimed the lives of hundreds of ...

by the nation’s most famous polio victim, President Franklin D. Roosevelt. He often speaks of his mother’s tenacity and love as the reason for his recovery. “I was under intense observation ...

Another polio case was reported in Pakistan on Thursday by the National Institute of Health (NIH), taking the total number of cases pf 2024 to 73. The newest case was confirmed in Sindh’s ...

My Aunt Jean, my father’s older sister, was a victim of the infamous Cutter vaccine, an early variant of the polio vaccine presumed to contain an inactivated version of the live virus.