On Aug. 27, the Rutland Daily Herald reported that doctors believed an epidemic of cerebral meningitis, spinal meningitis and cerebro-spinal meningitis had hit the city and surrounding area. Over the ...

Falling vaccination rates could lead to the return of previously eliminated diseases, and many more people will be at risk of ...

Atalla revealed: ‘Chris, who I shared a bedroom with, died of it, and by the time I was about 13 or 14, I think I'd been to like seven or eight funerals of kids that were at my school. So that was ...

Polio is in the news, with vaccination under threat and recent outbreaks. This makes Alan Marshall’s classic disability memoir more relevant than ever.

In the time before widespread vaccination, young children often lost their lives to devastating infectious diseases that ran rampant in America.

What the shingles vaccine does is it dampens reactivations of latent viruses in a way that may be protecting other parts of your body,” Martin said. Including, it seems, the brain. The measles, mumps ...

Alarmingly, many adults remain unprotected against polio. The disease continues to be transmitted primarily due to poor hygiene standards, posing a significant public health challenge.

In those nations, MAID is available to a wider universe of pained people, not just those with fewer than six months to live.

The percentage of parents seeking waivers for vaccinations for religious or other reasons has nearly doubled from 2020 to ...