The Latest Breaking News from Polio

A suicide bomber blew himself up near a truck carrying police officers on their way to protect polio workers near Quetta Wednesday, killing a police officer and two civilians.

Officials say a suicide bomber has killed three people and wounded nearly two dozen others in an attack on a truck carrying police officers tasked with protecting polio workers near Quetta

TTP claims responsibility for attack that targeted officers deployed to protect polio vaccination campaign workers.

The widespread immunisation campaign comes after four cases of polio were found in the country less than a decade after the World Health Organization declared it free of the deadly virus.

Indonesia has begun vaccinating children for the polio virus in the country's conservative province after four were infected with the highly contagious disease that was declared eradicated less than a decade ago

Heath officials say Pakistan has launched a new nationwide anti-polio drive amid a spike in new cases among children

The British paralympian lost the use of his legs after contracting the disease as a small child

Sister Elizabeth Kenny was a trailblazer who developed her own radical treatment for polio sufferers. Her hometown of Nobby is ensuring her legacy lives on.

Few Americans remember when polio-stricken children relied on seven-foot-long iron cylinders to breathe. At its peak in early 1950s, polio caused more than 15,000 cases of paralysis a year and over 3,000 deaths in the U.S. alone. In the decades that followed, a massive vaccination campaign nearly eradicated the disease…

Could polio and measles make a comeback in Ky.? School vaccination rates say kids are vulnerable

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — A candidate for a seat on a Sacramento school board aired vaccine misinformation and criticized state policies related to race and sex education at public meetings over the past year, videos show.