Polio (pronounced POH-lee-oh) is a serious disease caused by a virus called the poliovirus. The full medical name for the disease is poliomyelitis (pronounced POH-lee-oh-mi-uh-LI-tis). In its severest form, polio causes paralysis of the muscles of the...

Poliomyelitis is a contagious infectious disease that is caused by three types of poliovirus. The viruses cause damage and destruction of cells in the nervous system. Paralysis can result in about 2% of those who contract the disease, which is called...

Polio, or poliomyelitis, is a serious infectious disease caused by a virus that affects the central nervous system. Polio, sometimes called infantile paralysis, primarily affects children. When the virus first takes hold, symptoms begin with body aches...

Throughout most of human history, polio has caused paralysis and death. Often found in wet areas, the virus is most acute in cities during summer months. The virus inflames nerves in the brain and spinal cord, causing paralysis and can be passed...

Poliomyelitis, often called polio or infantile paralysis, is an acute viral infectious disease spread from person to person, primarily via the fecal-oral route.[1] The term derives from the Greek polio (πολίός), meaning "grey", myelon...

Poliomyelitis remains a disease of significance to military medicine. The medical branches of the military of many nations have much to contribute in the final 4 years of the campaign to eradicate poliomyelitis from the world. The service requirements of immunization remain a logistic...

To the Editor: In a recent issue of Military Medicine, Pearn1 has succinctly described the crucial role of the military toward global eradication of poliomyelitis involving the logistic and professional input. Nevertheless, military personnel all over the globe would continue to be exposed...

Bangladesh plans polio vaccinations for about 24 million children age 5 and under on Saturday in a continuing effort to eliminate the disease, the health ministry said.After a nearly six-year absence, poliomyelitis resurfaced in Bangladesh last year. The government, with U.N. help, launched a new...

A Jackson woman who contracted polio 57 years ago and continues to rely on an iron lung to breathe recently celebrated her 60th birthday, defying doctors' expectations that she could live so long and so fully. Dianne Odell, who turned 60 last week, is among...

A history of polio and its evolution to a cure.  Examines the fierce competition between Jonas Salk and Albert Sabin.

Overview of the effects of Polio and the vaccine.

Essay provides a discussion of Polio in the twentieth century and beyond.