New Delhi, Sep 27 (PTI) Shailesh Kumar faced ridicule from the people of his village in Bihar when he took up para sports after his right leg was affected by polio as a kid, but he hung on and his ...

Kenya Re Managing Director Jadiah Mwarania buys goods from Joyce Njuguna, a beneficiary of the Niko Fiti Campaign, yesterday. The company is running the campaign that seeks to empower persons with ...

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, ...

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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. New York health officials are warning about the likely spread of polio after the virus was detected in wastewater in New York City ...

She contracted polio in her native Argentina in 1941 when she was two years old, more than a decade before the polio vaccine was invented by Jonas Salk. As her body grew, so did her affected leg, but ...

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 ...