Houston – Every year, thousands of cyclists participate in the Bike MS: ACC Texas MS 150, the largest fundraising cycling event in the world. For two Houston riders, Andrea Bedoy and Juan Pinzon, this ...
Polio ravaged human bodies for hundreds of years, but the misery began to wane 70 years ago when two polio vaccines developed in the U.S. halted the virus’ spread. Many Georgians who caught polio in ...
Polio is a highly infectious viral disease that invades the nervous system and can trigger total paralysis in a matter of hours. It mainly targets children under age 5, and at one time disabled and ...
ATLANTA — Polio ravaged human bodies for hundreds of years, but the misery began to wane 70 years ago when two polio vaccines developed in the U.S. halted the virus’ spread. Many Georgians who caught ...
BURLEY • When the doctors couldn’t figure out why the penicillin wasn’t working, they started to experiment. It was the 1940s and they were running out of options on how to keep Nancy Boswell from ...
Wearing masks, avoiding large gatherings, shutting down schools—those scenes might sound familiar to anyone who experienced ...
Dear Doctor: I heard about a polio outbreak in Nigeria this summer. Might there be an outbreak here in the U.S.? Dear Reader: Polio is a crippling, and sometimes fatal, infectious disease that was ...
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 ...
The mother of the boy who the World Health Organization says was diagnosed with the first case of polio reported in the Gaza Strip in 25 years, Neveen Abu El Jidyan, says she's been able to do very ...
When it comes to deadly viruses, the eminent virologist Robert Gallo often said that humans have a memory problem. In media interviews and countless speeches, Dr. Gallo, emeritus director of the ...
Polio ravaged human bodies for hundreds of years, but the misery began to wane 70 years ago when two polio vaccines developed in the U.S. halted the virus’ spread. Many Georgians who caught polio in ...