The race to develop and distribute COVID-19 vaccines calls to mind another effort to eradicate polio. The scourge of the early 20th century paralyzed President Franklin Roosevelt. Tens of thousands of ...
Polio vaccine being administered by Dr. Jonas Salk on April 23, 1964. (AP Photo) Regarding the letter “History shows vaccines are life savers. So get the jab.” (Aug. 12): The polio vaccine came out in ...
An associate professor of history at Rochester Institute of Technology has received a fellowship from the National Endowment for the Humanities to support 12 months of full-time study about the ...
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 ...
How will the Global Polio Eradication Initiative deal with the changes made by the Trump administration at a crucial time in ...