Thanks to vaccines, the eradication of polio is within reach, just as smallpox was eradicated almost 50 years ago.

When four states stopped allowing parents to opt their children out of receiving routine vaccines without a medical reason, ...

A new survey shows parents still overwhelmingly support vaccine mandates for measles and polio, as Florida moves to remove immunization requirements for school-aged children and other states consider ...

A two-year-old child in Meghalaya was tested positive for vaccine-derived polio, raising fresh questions about how a weakened ...

Ending vaccine mandates undoes a requirement that allows children to grow up free from diseases that once routinely killed or permanently disabled them. In the early 20th century, diseases such as ...

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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 ...

KARACHI, Pakistan (AP) — Pakistan reported two new polio cases in the southern province of Sindh, health officials said Monday, a blow to efforts aimed at eradicating the crippling disease among ...

April 12th 2015 marks the 60th anniversary of the publication of Jonas Salk's landmark polio vaccine trial results, which confirmed that the first vaccine against polio was safe and effective. A new ...