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 ...

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

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

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

Now is the time to pull through on efforts to rid the world of polio once and for all — or continue managing it through costly outbreak responses, UNICEF argues in a new call to action. Support UNICEF ...

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

This 1960 photograph depicts a nurse caring for a patient of a Rhode Island polio epidemic inside an Emerson respirator, also referred to as an iron lung. Devices like these were used by polio ...

LONDON, Oct 21 (Reuters) - (This Oct. 21 story has been corrected to say 'disease,' not 'infection,' to clarify what the inactivated polio vaccine protects against, whether dosed fully or fractionally ...

A police officer guarding a team of polio workers in Pakistan was shot and killed by suspected militants on Tuesday. It is the latest in a series of attacks on vaccine teams in the country. The attack ...

Rachel Nuwer is a freelance writer based in New York City. The number of children who are missing routine vaccinations is increasing, especially in areas where conflict has disrupted basic health ...