ANDOVER — Imagine avoiding the sidewalk in front of someone’s home for a month out of fear of catching a paralyzing virus. Then imagine being the family living in that house. For Douglas Dodd, his ...

To date, Rotarians have collected more than $2.6 billion dollars and given countless volunteer hours to the effort to eradicate polio.

Poliomyelitis, also known as polio, is a contagious disease caused by the poliovirus. Thanks to the development of effective vaccines, the poliovirus has been largely eradicated and was endemic in ...

Vaccines have transformed global health, saving millions of lives. World Immunization Day 2025 highlights the need for ...

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 ...

A nurse fills a syringe with a vaccine before administering an injection at a kids clinic in Kiev, Ukraine August 14, 2019. Picture taken August 14, 2019. REUTERS/Valentyn Ogirenko (Corrects ...

How will the Global Polio Eradication Initiative deal with the changes made by the Trump administration at a crucial time in ...

Sandpoint High School’s Interact Club raised over $1,000 to fight polio through Rotary’s End Polio Now campaign, aiming to ...

This 1960 photograph depicts a nurse caring for a patient of a Rhode Island polio epidemic inside an Emerson respirator, also referred to as an iron lung. Devices like these were used by polio ...

Declining vaccination rates could lead to the reemergence of measles, rubella, and polio, with measles becoming endemic in 20 years at current rates. A 50% drop in vaccination rates could result in ...

KARACHI, Pakistan (AP) — 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 ...