polio

If left untreated, the condition can cause permanent paralysis and life-threatening complications from respiratory failure.

At the moment, there are no antiviral drugs that can treat or prevent rhinoviruses and enteroviruses.

Mona Randolph is one of three people in the U.S. who still uses an iron lung.

Researchers found that a genetically engineered poliovirus could treat the most common form of brain cancer.

The number of global polio cases has declined by over 99 percent since 1988.

But the country's economic crisis has led to shortages of vaccines and medicine.

Ongoing economic turmoil has led to a shortage of vaccines for the deadly virus.

Should avoiding vaccines be treated like a crime? Increasingly it is.

Three vaccines, for diphtheria, tetanus and poliomyelitis, are already mandatory in France.

An unexplained shortage of the injectable version of the vaccine slows attempts to kill polio in Afghanistan, Nigeria and Pakistan.

Two children have been paralyzed by the virus in Borno, the heartland of Boko Haram.

Vaccination rates have fallen dramatically in the last few years, and the conflict is making things worse.

If we were to act today with the same imagination as Dr. Salk we could wipe out polio for good.

"There is no mercy, we have decided to deal with the refusal cases with iron hands."

Chad Hayes on why he allowed his baby to be given all the shots.

With four more health workers killed this week, trying to eradicate the virus is a dangerous job

99% of polio has been eliminated, but now war and Ebola are threatening to derail the ambitious programme

Taliban militants say the campaign to immunize children against polio is a cover for Western spies, accuse workers of distributing vaccines designed to sterilize children

Five children in California have been paralyzed by a mystery virus – and scientists are still in the dark

More than a dozen polio cases have already been recorded in the largely rebel-held province of Deir al-Zor.

Scientists fear a deadly scourge that was nearly eradicated could be making a comeback

Scientists fear a deadly scourge that was nearly eradicated could be making a comeback.