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

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

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 ...

A major campaign to vaccinate children in Gaza against preventable diseases such as polio and measles has begun, but the UN ...

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

The story of polio’s eradication highlights how post-War World II scientific breakthroughs allowed U.S. industry to produce vaccines at scale. It also shows how, when those processes went horribly ...

A health worker in Karachi administers polio drops — the oral vaccine — on February 3, the first day of a nationwide polio vaccination campaign. The country, one of only two where wild polio ...

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

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

KARACHI, Pakistan — 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 ...