Comprehensive coverage of the hexavalent vaccine can protect again whooping cough and polio writes Esther Nakkazi.

Comprehensive coverage of the hexavalent vaccine can protect against whooping cough and polio, averting disease resurgence, writes Esther Nakkazi.

Polio, whooping cough, tetanus and diphtheria cause significant sickness and sometimes death in unvaccinated infants, children, and adults. This vaccine is for use as a booster in adults ...

Jeopardizing vaccine programs by appointing conspiracy theorists with no medical training to oversee healthcare institutions will result in dire consequences for generations to come.

At around four to six years they will be given booster doses of DTP and polio and second doses of MMR and chicken pox. This information is summarized in Table 2. Vaccines are also recommended for ...

Trump does not seem to be in total agreement with his views, telling podcast host and fellow anti-vaxxer Joe Rogan: “I know ...

Kennedy, known as a persistent critic of vaccine safety and a booster of conspiracy theories, said it is a possibility he ...

Health DG, Dr Patrick Amoth, said Polio can be prevented by receiving the Oral Polio Vaccine and the Inactivated Polio ...

The Israeli military said on Wednesday aid organizations had completed a second polio vaccination round for children in Gaza, ...

JERUSALEM, Nov 6 (Reuters) - The Israeli military said on Wednesday aid organizations had completed a second polio vaccination round for children in Gaza, administering more than 1.1 million ...

Oct. 24 marked the beginning of Rotary International’s End Polio Now campaign. Oct. 24 is the birthday of Dr. Jonas Salk, the scientist who spearheaded the development of the first polio vaccine. In ...

The vaccination campaign comes after the first polio case in 25 years in Gaza was discovered this month. Doctors concluded a 10-month-old had been partially paralyzed by a mutated strain of the ...