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Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. In early August, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) updated its polio warning to an increased level that ...

After decades of American children routinely receiving polio vaccines, the virus that had doomed many to paralysis was nearly eliminated in the United States. But vaccine avoidance today may allow the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The head of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's vaccine advisory committee questioned whether broad recommendations ...

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 ...

Waldorf schools tend to attract parents who don’t want their kids to eat junk food or play Fortnite; they also draw a fair number who skip vaccines. During the pandemic, I began to hear considerable ...

(CNN) — 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. The parents say ...