A campaign to vaccinate about 40,000 children under the age of three began on Sunday. The drive aims to protect against ...

ISLAMABAD/LAHORE: Health auth­orities in Punjab on Monday launched a massive Extended-Age Fractional IPV Campaign, aiming to vaccinate up to 2 million children with an injectable polio vaccine as part ...

Around 90 percent of children under 10 in the Gaza Strip have received a dose of the polio vaccine following the first round of an emergency vaccination campaign conducted by UNICEF and partners in ...

SUBSCRIBERS AS OF THIS. [MUSIC] MONTH. TURNING TO FIVE ON YOUR HEALTH TONIGHT, NEW CONCERNS ABOUT A SEASONAL VIRUS THAT CAN, IN RARE CASES, CAUSE POLIO LIKE SYMPTOMS IN CHILDREN. HERE TO EXPLAIN IS ...

The first wave of a massive polio vaccination campaign is wrapping up in Gaza. The World Health Organization says, in less than two weeks, they've helped administer more than 550,000 polio vaccines to ...

Scientists have found evidence that levels of enterovirus D68, which can cause a rare, polio-like condition in kids, has been spiking nationally since August. Reading time: Reading time 3 minutes A ...

Renewed efforts to administer a second dose of a polio vaccine to children have begun in northern Gaza, a spokeswoman for UNICEF confirmed to dpa on Saturday. The spokeswoman noted that a humanitarian ...

The second round of a polio vaccination campaign is underway in Gaza. Public health officials are hoping to reach the more than half a million children who received their first dose a few weeks back.

Over 58,600 children in northern Gaza received the final dose of the polio vaccine on Saturday, the United Nations said, as health workers race to vaccinate thousands more before the campaign wraps up ...

Children ages 1-9 in London were made eligible for booster doses of a polio vaccine Wednesday after British health authorities reported finding evidence the virus has spread in multiple areas of the ...