Poliomyelitis is an ancient disease that has resulted in significant morbidity and mortality worldwide for centuries. Its ...

The first test of a live-attenuated polio vaccine on humans was conducted in 1950 by Hilary Koprowski on 20 disabled children ...

Developed during the 1920s, the iron lung was invented to help individuals with polio breathe after their torso and abdominal muscles ceased to work. Improvements to the iron lung were made throughout ...

This summary covers various health news: a Nipah virus death in Kerala, Gaza's polio vaccination coverage success, brain ...

Thanks to vaccinations, measles was declared eliminated in the U.S. in 2000. But measles cases are now back; one reason is ...

Richard Anderson, a member of the Rotary Club of Pangbourne, has raised £100,000 for End Polio through antique quizzes and ...

A Pangbourne man has raised £100,000 for a polio eradication initiative, by hosting antique quizzes and talks on the Zulu Wars and scandalous women. The money will go towards an initiative run ...

Given that polio was all but eradicated in this region of the world, how might the ten-month-old baby in Gaza have caught it? The sequences of the polioviruses detected in Gaza in July 2024 ...

A large polio vaccination campaign started in war-torn Gaza on Sunday, September 1. The initiative, which is being led by the World Health Organization (WHO), aims to reach over 640,000 children ...

Polio has made a comeback in the Gaza Strip after 25 years, forcing the United Nations and local health authorities to launch a vaccination campaign in the Palestinian enclave ravaged by 11 months ...

A large-scale campaign to vaccinate hundreds of thousands of children against polio in the Gaza Strip launched Sunday. The three-day campaign hopes to prevent an outbreak of the virus – which ...

DEIR AL-BALAH, Gaza Strip (AP) — Palestinian health authorities and United Nations agencies on Sunday began a large-scale campaign of vaccinations against polio in the Gaza Strip, hoping to ...