Polio, a disease that can cause lifelong paralysis, has been eliminated from the U.S. Experts fear a resurgence if lifesaving ...

Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s repeated support for vaccines during Senate confirmation hearings follows a long history of disparaging them.

Polio cases are surging in both countries. Can Pakistan and Afghanistan collaborate on eradicating the virus, even as their ...

Police is a highly infectious disease that invades the nervous system and can cause total paralysis in a matter of hours.

As Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.'s Senate confirmation hearings begin, some local physicians worry the anti-vaccine activist may ...

Vaccination rates for Alabama’s youngest residents have fallen dramatically since the COVID-19 pandemic. And that’s especially true when it comes to the vaccine for polio. The state’s infants and ...

Can it be that what took years of research to create be undone by non-medical officials who have never stepped into a ...

My Aunt Jean, my father’s older sister, was a victim of the infamous Cutter vaccine, an early variant of the polio vaccine presumed to contain an inactivated version of the live virus.

This confirmation marks the 11th reported polio case from DI Khan, underscoring ongoing challenges in the fight against the disease despite repeated mass vaccination drives. A day earlier ...

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 ...

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, ...

By Apoorva Mandavilli 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 ...