A more affordable, lower-risk polio vaccine is on the horizon, research has found. A more affordable, lower-risk polio vaccine is on the horizon, research led by the University of Leeds has found.

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Students at Sunshine Elementary School sang Christmas carols to their homebound classmate, Gwinn Hinkle, as he recovered from polio in 1952. During the first half of the 20th century, a series of ...

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LONDON, Nov 13 (Reuters) - Germany has found the wild polio virus in a sewage sample in Hamburg, the first such detection in Europe since 2010. Polio, short for poliomyelitis, is an infectious disease ...