Seventy years ago this week, Utah joined the nation in celebrating the announcement that Jonas Salk's polio vaccine was safe ...

Polio ravaged human bodies for hundreds of years, but the misery began to wane 70 years ago when two polio vaccines developed ...

As infectious disease outbreaks are rising globally, health experts recommend people confirm their vaccination status, ...

Beginning next month in the South and working North ahead of the polio season, the vaccine that Salk has devised and concocted will be shot into the arms of 500,000 to 1.000,000 youngsters in the ...

Back then, fear and doubt about polio were rampant. But the nation didn’t dwell on problems. We did what Americans always do ...

Within 15 days, polio ravaged her body, partially paralyzing her limbs and weakening her neck. She was moved to the D.T.

Two vaccines developed in the U.S. in the 1950s helped nearly end new polio infections here and abroad. At the University of Pittsburgh, Dr. Jonas Salk created the inactivated (dead) polio vaccine ...