With measles outbreaks and HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. making scary headlines, celebrate the 70th anniversary of the polio vaccine.

Before polio vaccines became available in the 1950s, people wary of the disabling disease were afraid to allow their children outside, let alone go to school. As polio appears again decades after ...

Outbreaks of polio killed thousands of people in the U.S before the introduction of the first polio vaccine in 1955. The disease spreads from person to person, usually through contamination from ...

"Polio is the poster child for why attenuated vaccines are so good, and why we also need to always be developing a more subunit or killed-vaccine approach," Kedl said.

An unvaccinated resident of Rockland County, N.Y., exposed to a person who received an oral polio vaccine has contracted polio, health officials said; here's what to know about the vaccines.

Dedicated health workers crossed Pakistan to reach 45 million children in one week with the lifesaving polio vaccine, with ...

Outbreaks of polio killed thousands of people in the U.S before the introduction of the first polio vaccine in 1955. The disease spreads from person to person, usually through contamination from ...

A girl swallows a lump of sugar coated with a dose of the Sabin polio vaccine, served in a paper cup in Atlanta. AP. In the late 1940s and early 1950s, before vaccines were available, polio ...

The polio vaccine effort offers some lessons for today, says Stewart. First, volunteers from local communities are trusted and invaluable in providing education on disease, research and vaccines.

The oral polio vaccine has not been administered in the United States since 2000. Today, the polio vaccine in the United States is a highly effective shot, which does not contain live virus ...

High in the clouds, where the air is thin and the roads are treacherous, a group of committed health workers climbs mountains ...

One of the vaccines used to prevent polio has actually been causing some people to get polio. NPR's Jason Beaubien joins us now. Jason, thanks for being with us.