I have received a copy of the following letter from the highly contagious viral disease polio, written to members of the U.S. Senate who will be considering Robert F. Kennedy Jr., President-elect ...
Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif on Sunday inaugurated a nationwide anti-polio campaign, administering polio drops to children under the age of five. He reaffirmed his government’s determination to ...
Polio survivor Ramesh Ferris & Nigerian Save the Children Foundation representative Catherine Ojo performs on stage at the End Of Polio Campaign Concert on October 28, 2011 in Perth, Australia.
These haunting words from Peg Kehret's award winning book Small Steps: The Year I Got Polio remind us of a time when the fight against the disease was far from over. It is a fight we cannot afford ...
I am one of only two members of Congress who are polio survivors. In 1954, my father was a pediatrician in Memphis, Tennessee. As part of the worldwide effort to stop polio, he was given a limited ...
But they were fine with it then, out of fear that we could get polio and the hope that this vaccine could end their worry. And it did. Those of us who had gotten the placebo had to come back for ...
Regarding the Dec. 14 article “RFK Jr. ally petitioned FDA on polio vaccine’s approval”: Polio used to be a fearsome adversary. In 1952, the peak year for infections in the United States ...