The front page of the Deseret News on April 12, 1955, as the Salk polio vaccine was declared effective and safe for Americans ...

PolioThere was this disease Out gobbling up the children It grabbed us Around the chestBeat at our limbs With mangling wingSo bad Our parents Tried to snatch us backAs if we were in the path of buses ...

South Carolina families are living through a public health crisis that would have been unfathomable just a generation ago.

Permanently wiping out a disease is tricky business. Polio, measles, mumps—all have effective vaccines, yet they persist in certain pockets around the world. To date, the World Health Organization ...

Dozens of readers have recently written with questions about travel precautions amid infectious-disease outbreaks. I wanted ...

Candy Land is one of the top selling children’s board games of all time selling an average of one million units per year. The game, which invites players to explore a peppermint stick forest, a peanut ...

Harlem Hospital ignored its own commitment to conduct weekly rapid testing that could have prevented the spread of Legionnaires' disease ahead of last summer’s deadly outbreak, according to documents ...

Cruise ship virus outbreaks attract attention, in part because they are among the most closely monitored in the travel industry. This is what passengers should understand before setting sail. A string ...

Students at the University of Kent in the U.K. are calling for a shutdown in light of an active meningitis outbreak. The demands follow multiple alerts from the UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA) about ...

At least 27 young adults are believed to be infected, and two have died, in an outbreak of meningococcal disease in the county of Kent, in southeast England. By Megan Specia Reporting from London Two ...

Many of the affected individuals are children, ages 3 or younger, across California, Texas and Florida, according to the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA). Of the seven reported cases, five were ...

Two people have died in an outbreak of meningococcal disease. Many cases were traced to a nightclub in Canterbury that is popular with students at the University of Kent. By Isabella Kwai Reporting ...