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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 ...

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

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 ...

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, ...

Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has launched an unprecedented review of ...

Hassana Mohammed Bunur and Bukar Modu, both polio survivors who now champion polio vaccination in their communities.

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 ...