The United States recorded its first polio case since 2013 earlier this month, sparking questions about a virus that, to many people, is a footnote in history. Most Americans were not alive in the ...

The late Dr. John “Jack” Heimark began his career at a clinic in Mankato during a time when the last great public epidemic — polio — was rampant. “When I was in medical school in 1950, there were iron ...

Most American parents today can't fathom the horror that summers brought during the first half of the 20th century. Summer meant polio season, and whole communities waited in dread for an outbreak to ...

In the 1940s and ‘50s, when Wantagh resident Barbara Kitay was growing up in Bethpage, she lived in a world that feared the contagious paralysis-causing polio virus that targeted young children, saw ...

Picture a summer in Seattle where you can’t go to the pool. Or the beach. Or anywhere with water. Ahead of World Polio Day on Oct. 24, Diane Cohn remembers that’s what it was like when she was growing ...