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The patient, who has developed paralysis but is no longer contagious according to the AP, may have contracted the virus overseas. The CDC says no cases of polio have originated in the U.S. since 1979.
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Health officials have long known that virus from the oral vaccine can contaminate water supplies; they underestimated how big a problem this would be.
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Florida has confirmed its first case of acute flaccid myelitis, or "AFM"—a rare, serious illness that affects the nervous system, particularly among...
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This year has seen a record number of cases of a mysterious paralyzing illness in children, U.S. health officials said Monday.It's still not clear what's…
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A spike in the number of children with a rare neurological disease that causes polio-like symptoms has health officials across the country scrambling to…