The Latest Breaking News from Polio

Ben-Gurion University’s $1.3m grant from Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation will fund research on measuring immune response to polioviruses.

Six poliovirus cases have been reported so far this year. But the country’s fight is not just against the disease.

After no reported cases of wild polio for 19 weeks, vaccination efforts boosted at last endemic spots in Pakistan and Afghanistan

Paul Alexander, a polio survivor who lived in an iron lung, inspires with his resilience and positivity. His legacy endures.

Paul Alexander was one of the last people to use an iron lung, having been left unable to breathe on his own after catching polio in the 1950s.

Polio survivor, recognised as ‘longest iron lung patient’ after using one for 70 years, became an inspirational figure

"More than anything, I believe he would want others to know they are capable of great things," Alexander's friend Christopher Ulmer told NPR.

Tributes have been paid to an “extraordinary” man who spent more than 70 years living in an iron lung after contracting polio as a child.

“Except for the polio that I’ve had since my childhood, I went to jail without any health issues. But today, I am in front of you though alive, each and every organ failing me,” said GN Saibaba, 59, a former Delhi University professor who was released from Nagpur Central Jail…