Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Growing up, my siblings and I would occasionally get to look through my mom’s scrapbook full of greeting cards from friends and ...

My mother, Cathryn Robertson Forrester, had polio. As a child in the 1930s, she was living in New York when she was struck with polio at the age of six. As a result, she suffered partial paralysis of ...

The first known victim of polio lived and died in the 14th century B.C., during Egypt’s 18th dynasty. He is immortalized on a carved limestone slab, the Stele of Roma the Doorkeeper. In the carving, ...

Catharine Coleborne receives funding from the Australian Research Council. She currently holds an ARC Discovery Project grant to investigate the social history of polio in Australia (DP260101953). She ...

World Polio Day is Oct. 24. I am a polio survivor, contracting polio in 1953. Most polio survivors cannot tell you who gave them the virus or exactly where they contracted it. However, I can tell you ...

I contracted polio in 1953 and was put into a contagion ward. My cousin also had polio and it attacked his lungs. He was put in an iron lung, and it was (a) death sentence and he lived for three years ...

If anyone should have lobbied against the use of vaccines in this country, it was my family. My Aunt Jean, my father’s older sister, was a victim of the infamous Cutter vaccine, an early variant of ...

Overland was a reporter and public health writer in Asia for more than a decade. She is currently an editor at NPR. My son was 5 years old when he climbed out of bed and landed on the floor. He was ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. When 13-year-old music prodigy Itzhak Perlman performed on "The Ed Sullivan Show" in 1958, viewers could see his extraordinary ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Wikimedia Commons/Author supplied Measles cases have already been reported in most states in Australia this year. Cases tripled ...

Kimberly Witt is an Iowa transplant placing roots in St. Paul, Minnesota, where she and her husband parent two young adult sons born in Ethiopia. Growing up, my siblings and I would occasionally get ...