What Is the Polio Vaccine? The polio vaccine or shot helps stop the spread of polio. The U.S. uses the inactivated polio vaccine (IPV). It's one of two types of polio vaccinations to prevent infection ...

Here’s a multiple-choice question. When you get really close to a goal that you’ve worked towards for decades, should you: Redouble efforts. Stay the course. Reverse course and do less. Number three ...

One of RFK Jr.’s vaccine advisers recently floated the idea of stopping vaccination against the virus. It would be catastrophic. Illustration by Akshita Chandra / The Atlantic. Sources: Smith ...

In the 1940s and 1950s, hospital wards in the U.S. were filled with iron lungs helping many children, and some adults, who had polio breathe and stay alive. The use of polio vaccines have helped make ...

Get your news from a source that’s not owned and controlled by oligarchs. Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily. The darker chapters of public health history do not seem to faze anti-vaccine ...

Polio, or poliomyelitis, is a highly contagious viral disease caused by the poliovirus. Though largely eradicated in many parts of the world due to widespread vaccination efforts, its long-term ...

In mid-March 2023, the World Health Organization (WHO) announced that health officials in Burundi and Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) had detected cases of vaccine-derived poliovirus. The WHO said ...

Share on Pinterest Why has polio reemerged in the US in 2022, and what should we know about it? Image credit: Lisa-Blue/Getty Images. In 1952, the United States experienced its largest outbreak of ...