Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A health worker administers a polio vaccine to a child in Karachi, Pakistan, April 21, 2025. (AP Photo/Fareed Khan) Amid rampant ...
For decades, global efforts to eradicate polio have relied on a deceptively simple tool: a few drops of orangey-red liquid ...

Polio Was That Bad

One of RFK Jr.’s vaccine advisers recently floated the idea of stopping vaccination against the virus. It would be ...
Carol Ferguson (left) and Jim Smith, both of Pennsylvania, have post-polio syndrome, which is a condition that includes new muscle weakness, joint pain and other issues decades after survivors were ...
Here’s a multiple-choice question. When you get really close to a goal that you’ve worked towards for decades, should you: Redouble efforts. Stay the course. Reverse course and do less. Number three ...
Dr. Kirk Milhoan suggested some vaccines shouldn't be mandated.
For the past decade, Sughra Ayaz has traveled door to door in southeastern Pakistan, pleading with parents to allow children to be vaccinated against polio as part of a global campaign to wipe out the ...