Polio is almost completely eradicated. But as Bruce Aylward says: Almost isn't good enough with a disease this terrifying. Aylward lays out the plan to continue the scientific miracle that ended polio in most of the world -- and to snuff...

If we’ve had vaccines for the polio virus for almost 70 years, why haven’t we been able to fully eradicate it from the globe? Hosted by: Hank Green (he/him)

Las vacunas han supuesto que actualmente existan muy pocos casos nuevos de polio, pero a principios del siglo XX la situación era muy distinta. Aprende cómo dos científicos, Salk y Sabin, casi han erradicado esta enfermedad...

Vaccines mean that there are now very few new polio cases, but in the early 1900s this wasn't the case. Learn how two scientists, Salk and Sabin, virtually wiped out this potentially deadly disease. Biology - Healthy Living - Polio is a...

A young child is reportedly afflicted with polio in Venezuela - the first reported case of the crippling disease since it's eradication in the country in 1989. The Telegraph reports that according to the Pan-American Health...

When polio vaccines were first developed, many experts thought the disease would be fully eradicated within decades. Tragically, as this film shows, it has survived in places like Afghanistan and northern Nigeria. These locations are...

As a disease that afflicted thousands of children, adolescents, and adults each year, polio was devastating and incurable. Polio led to paralysis and, in many cases, death. With no cure available, vaccination was the only real hope.

In 1952, polio was everywhere: killing or paralyzing roughly half a million people annually. Yet just 10 years later, paralytic polio cases in the US dropped by 96% and we were on track to get rid of polio for good. But in recent years,...

This video highlights the ongoing efforts of Rotary International, in partnership with the World Health Organization and the United Nations, to eradicate polio in Africa and Southeast Asia. Despite significant progress, 14 million...

This video highlights the groundbreaking work of Dr. Jonas Salk and his team in developing a safe and effective vaccine for polio. It discusses the impact of the vaccine in drastically reducing polio cases in the United States, from...

A new experimental treatment is using a modified version of a once-dreaded virus to fight against a deadly form of brain cancer.

The surprising approval of the extremely expensive and maybe not that effective drug Aduhelm has been dominating the conversation around Alzheimer's treatments in recent memory. Today, we're getting positive and talking about a very...

Poliomyelitis is a disease caused by the poliovirus, which has the ability to infect motor neurons in the spinal cord and cause paralysis. American President Franklin Roosevelt was famously crippled by polio. The poliovirus exists in a...

Delve into the body's immune response against viral infections and the vital role of vaccines in disease prevention. Understand how symptoms like fever and coughing signal the immune system's battle against viruses, and explore the...

This video explains how vaccines have played a crucial role in eradicating deadly diseases throughout history, using the example of polio. It highlights the way vaccines work by training the immune system to create antibodies, leading to...

Afghanistan and Pakistan are two of the remaining three countries where polio hasn’t yet been eliminated. Courageous polio vaccinators travel to remote villages often in dangerous areas to immunize millions of children. Thanks to the...

While Polio has been on a huge decline in the world, places like Pakistan, Syria, and just recently Nigeria are still having a lot of trouble with this horrible disease. Dr. Stephen Morse, Professor of Epidemiology at Columbia...

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The March of Dimes was founded by President Roosevelt in 1938 in order to fund the development of a cure for polio - a disease he had himself. From: A SHOT TO SAVE THE WORLDef='https://bit.ly/2zhXbFL' target='_blank'...

Archival footage showing children afflicted with polio, Jonas Salk giving injections, an immunization centre, and vials of vaccine being produced.http://www.britannica.com/eb/article-9065099/Jonas-Edward-Salk?source=youtube_18529'...

In 2012 Ewen Callaway travelled to Northern Nigeria to learn more about the global polio eradication effort. We join him on the search to find one of the virus' last remaining strongholds in remote nomadic communities that the vaccines...

The CDC has confirmed the rise of acute flaccid myelitis, also known as polio-like disease.

Measles, mumps, and polio are things we can prevent with vaccines, but scientists are looking to add a surprising entry to that list: Type 1 diabetes.

Developed during the 1920s, the iron lung was invented to help individuals with polio breathe after their torso and abdominal muscles ceased to work. Improvements to the iron lung were made throughout the 20th century, but the...