Local polio survivors have a social support group available for sharing information, resources, and support. Polio, or poliomyelitis, is a disease caused by the poliovirus that spread person to person ...

From left, Bonnie and Warren Peascoe, Dave Johnson and Pat and Janice Kelly explore the accessibility of the Middle Creek Trail at the Washington Works Nature Trails. Johnson is a volunteer who ...

The Wood County Society and members of the Mid-Ohio Valley Post-Polio Support Group have celebrated the society’s 30th anniversary of sponsoring the group. From left, front: Warren Peascoe, chairman ...

When Bonnie Levitan was 11 years old in 1951, she was paralyzed from the neck down for six months. She laid in a hospital bed in Pontiac, experiencing the “frightening” treatment for polio. Hot packs ...

For decades, global efforts to eradicate polio have relied on a deceptively simple tool: a few drops of orangey-red liquid ...

Kirk Milhoan, a pediatric cardiologist recently appointed as chair of a highly influential federal vaccine committee, ...

To really understand how immunization can change your life, Carol Boigon is a good person to talk to. “Every summer everybody got sick,” said Boigon, a Denver resident. “One summer it was my turn, not ...

Oct 17 (Reuters) - The Global Polio Eradication Initiative (GPEI) needs more funds and has pushed back by three years its target to officially wipe out all forms of the disease, officials said on ...