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.

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 ...

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 ...

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.