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

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

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When I moved to Tallahassee, in the fall of 1990, one of my first jobs was to work at the Florida Department of Health in the Maternal Health Division. My assignment was to work with the late Dr.

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 ...

While polio may seem like a disease of the past, its eradication is still unfinished business—and one of the most ambitious global health undertakings in history. In honor of World Polio Day on ...

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 ...

Herd immunity occurs when enough people in a group are immune to a specific infection that it cannot spread easily from person to person. Vaccination programs have been successful in creating herd ...

Back in 2022, everyone was surprised (and a little uneasy) when the news was announced that a man in New York had contracted poliovirus (polio, for short). After all, don't all children receive the ...

I was born before the polio vaccine was invented. I have a memory, a question and a sermon. The memory: Me and all my little friends in our east-side Detroit apartment complex suddenly barred from ...