In 2024, 99 wild polio cases occured, all of them in Pakistan and Afghanistan, the only two countries where the disease is still endemic. The number of vaccine-derived polio cases was higher last year ...

ISLAMABAD/LAHORE: Health auth­orities in Punjab on Monday launched a massive Extended-Age Fractional IPV Campaign, aiming to vaccinate up to 2 million children with an injectable polio vaccine as part ...

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

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 ...

One of my earliest childhood memories is the day we came home from school after getting our polio vaccines. My mother was ...

RFK Jr. replaced all members of the CDC's vaccine advisory committee, raising concerns about the committee's future direction. One of the new appointees, Robert Malone, M.D., has promoted discredited ...

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

As long as there have been vaccines, there has been vaccine terror, going back to the early 18th Century, when Boston faced a smallpox pandemic. Onesimus, an enslaved African owned by Cotton Mather, ...