and it was excruciating.” That unlocked the dreaded answer, and she later woke up in the polio ward. “The initial disease starts like a flu-like illness,” Dr. Albert England with OSF said.

“Then, as if nothing ever happened, in a small corner of an overcrowded, massive hospital ward, filled with dozens of dying ...

PPS can cause muscle weakness, fatigue, and joint pain. I spent six weeks in a polio ward in the 1960s while recovering from orthopedic surgery. I saw people with iron lungs get hot pack ...

Pakistan’s first nationwide polio campaign of 2025 launched the first week of February, aiming to vaccinate over 45.4 million children under the age of 5 in 159 of the country's 166 districts.

On an August morning in 1949, when I was six, I got out of bed and collapsed on the floor. By evening, I was paralyzed from the neck down and in an iron lung. I spent the next five months in a polio ...

At age 6 he was diagnosed with polio and spent five-and-a-half years in a polio ward set up at Bellevue Hospital, better known as a mental institution. For much of that time he wasn’t allowed ...

Pakistan has confirmed its second case of wild poliovirus type 1 (WPV1) for 2025, as reported by the Regional Reference Laboratory for Polio Eradication at the National Institute of Health.