The Race to the Sky, the annual sled dog race that serves as a qualifier for the Iditarod, will take place Feb. 7-11 in Lincoln. The race is run by Montana Sled Dog Inc., a private nonprofit 501(3 ...

HENDERSON, Ky (WEHT) – Four dogs were rescued after falling through ice at a Madisonville park. The Madisonville Fire Department said on social media that the agency received an alarm at ...

FOXBOROUGH, Mass. (WWLP) – A mother from Taunton is facing charges after she allegedly assaulted two referees at her son’s high school hockey game in Foxborough. Massachusetts attorney ...

I was a child in the 1950s when my friends and I feared that splashing through puddles of stagnant water on our bicycles could give us polio. Our moms warned the deadly virus causing paralysis of the ...

Another polio case was reported in Pakistan on Thursday by the National Institute of Health (NIH), taking the total number of cases pf 2024 to 73. The newest case was confirmed in Sindh’s ...

INDIANAPOLIS — A Republican-led coalition introduced a bill that would allow Hoosiers over the age of 21 to legally use marijuana. House Bill 1630, which was introduced by State Rep. Heath ...

Polio may have been eradicated from most of the world nowadays, but in the not-so-distant past the disease caused devastation, with devastating epidemics occurring across the UK and US in the 1950s.

ISLAMABAD: Another poliovirus case has been detected in Pakistan, bringing the tally to 71 in 2024, the Regional Reference Laboratory for Polio Eradication at the National Institute of Health (NIH ...

In my most recent trip (last week), I learned of a new government policy about mandatory polio vaccination (or boosters) certificate for anyone who was staying in the country for more than four weeks.

The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation has announced plans to launch a polio eradication program in Afghanistan and Pakistan in 2025, with support from Qatar and several other countries. Chris Elias, ...

Fiorello contracted polio in October 1955 at age 8, just weeks before he and his fellow students at Barbour School in Rockford were to be administered what at the time was a brand-new polio vaccine.

Most American parents hardly give thought to polio beyond the instant their child is immunized against the disease. But there was a time in this country when polio paralyzed 20,000 people in a ...