Janell Routh News Today

An outbreak of acute flaccid myelitis, a virus that can paralyze children, was expected to spread across the U.S, but never did -- baffling experts.

Physicians who treat children with acute flaccid myelitis, or AFM, had been steeling themselves this fall for an onslaught of cases.

The CDC is considering using an oral polio vaccine for the first time in more than two decades in an effort to stymie a growing outbreak of the disease.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) is considering the use of the oral polio vaccine for the first time in the last two decades to fight against the recent New York outbreak.

The U.S. currently uses the inactivated polio vaccine, which is highly effective at preventing paralysis but does not stop transmission of the virus.

The U.S. currently uses the inactivated polio vaccine, which is highly effective at preventing paralysis but does not stop transmission of the virus.

The U.S. currently uses the inactivated polio vaccine, which is highly effective at preventing paralysis but does not stop transmission of the virus.

The U.S. currently uses the inactivated polio vaccine, which is highly effective at preventing paralysis but does not stop transmission of the virus.

The U.S. currently uses the inactivated polio vaccine, which is highly effective at preventing paralysis but does not stop transmission of the virus.

Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) said there’s an “opportunity” to add federal coronavirus relief aid to a package of legislation funding the government as a February deadline looms.