Islamabad: Pakistan will vaccinate more than 45 million children during its first nationwide polio eradication campaign of ...

Lifesaving vaccines and strengthened health systems are making a difference for millions of children around the world.

Before polio vaccines became available in the 1950s, people wary of the disabling disease were afraid to allow their children outside, let alone go to school. As polio appears again decades after it ...

ISLAMABAD -- Pakistan reported fewer than half as many cases of polio in 2025 than the previous year, a sign of progress in ...

With a polio case reported in Rockland County, New York, adults may be wondering whether they should get a polio vaccine booster after getting vaccinated as a child. Didn’t think you’d have “Decide ...

Polio disabled about 35,000 people in the US each year at its peak, according to the CDC. Mia Farrow said she was quarantined with polio at age 9 and came home to find her belongings had been burned.

Around 30 employees of COMNet, who serve mostly in southern districts as the advocacy communication officers (ACOs), ...

Sorrow, fear, hospitals overwhelmed, closures – all due to the deadly coronavirus. And all hallmarks of another deadly and mysterious virus that terrified Americans, starting at the turn of the 20th ...

According to the polio eradication programme, only 30 cases have been reported since September; expert says virus tends to ...

Twenty-one years since Australia was declared polio free, some survivors are living with the disease's long-lasting effects, and fear a number might not even know. In 1950, when Gillian Thomas ...

The CDC says 99% of fully vaccinated children are protected from polio. Since a case of polio was reported in Rockland County-- just north of New York City -- last month, officials have suspected that ...

Health officials in New York have discovered a case of polio in an adult — the first case in the country since 2013. The good news is most people have nothing to worry about. "Unless you're ...