My mother had polio. We thought it was gone for good.
I remember the day I received the vaccine. My mother took me to the local high school, where we joined a long waiting line.
As Polio Survivors Watch Kennedy Confirmation, All Eyes Are on McConnell
There are an estimated 300,000 polio survivors in the United States. For some, the nomination of Robert F. Kennedy Jr. as ...
How Lagging Vaccination Could Lead to a Polio Resurgence
In its original form, the virus survives in just two countries. But a type linked to an oral vaccine used in other nations ...
The Washington Post23d
Let’s try something different in how we deal with polio
didn’t? Do I think polio is good? No! Of course not. But some people do, and I just think it would be a mistake not to give them the opportunity to set the course of vaccine policy for the next ...
Fresno ‘champion’ for polio vaccine wary of Trump’s choice for health secretary | Opinion
Then there’s this: Aaron Siri, Kennedy’s lawyer and the person helping him pick top federal health officials, according to ...
St. Louis Post-Dispatch25d
In Missouri, 9% of kindergarten students are not vaccinated against measles, polio
a pediatrician with Mercy Hospital Washington in Franklin County, where polio vaccination rates have fallen in recent years to 91%. “Personally, as a parent of two young boys, that is kind of a ...
Seattle Times12d
How Lagging Vaccination Could Lead to a Polio Resurgence
If polio vaccination rates were to fall ... She didn’t participate in the 1963 March on Washington or play sports, as she desperately wanted to, or go hiking, skiing and bicycling with her ...