The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has reportedly sent a team to New York to investigate a case of polio. It was detected in person in Rockland County. A spokesperson for the CDC ...

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's own medical advisers are criticizing the federal health agency for being slow to respond to a polio-like disease that's struck hundreds of children ...

Two children in Nigeria have been diagnosed with polio, ending a two-year stretch of zero instances of polio in that nation. The diagnoses amount to a setback for internationally unified efforts to ...

The CDC is investigating about 160 additional reports of children with possible acute flaccid myelitis, but are still puzzled by the sudden spike in cases, according to STAT. Health officials have ...

The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has escalated its response to the illness that's struck children in 29 states, increasing the number of disease detectives in its Atlanta headquarters ...

Parents of children who had a horrifying polio-like illness are accusing the Centers for Disease Control of hiding the deaths of two children who suffered from the condition. Parents of children who ...

Back in 2022, everyone was surprised (and a little uneasy) when the news was announced that a man in New York had contracted poliovirus (polio, for short). After all, don't all children receive the ...

Kennedy Jr. acknowledged that he directed the CDC to change its statement. Credit: AP/Rebecca Noble A new Centers for Disease ...