Officials say Pakistan has begun its last nationwide vaccination campaign for the year to protect 45 million children from ...

The 1950s was a turning point for polio. Amidts deadly outbreaks, Jonas Salk developed a vaccine that saved countless from ...

Authorities deployed thousands of police officers to protect health workers following intelligence reports that insurgents ...

MAR-A-LAGO (AP) - President-elect Donald Trump on Monday held a wide-ranging news conference in which he said he would preserve access to the polio vaccine but equivocated on other vaccines, pledged ...

President-elect Donald Trump has held a wide-ranging news conference in which he took questions from reporters for the first time since winning the election ...

Since the late 1980s, global polio cases have decreased by more than 99% alongside increased vaccination efforts to eradicate the disease, from an estimated 350,000 cases to just six reported in ...

The health ministry said on Wednesday that 60 per cent of 2024’s 59 polio cases occurred in unvaccinated children. Three more polio cases last week took the country’s annual tally to 59.

Rebecca Noble/Getty Invented by U.S. physician Jonas Salk, the vaccine helped nearly eradicate polio around the world. The World Health Organization reports that by 1957, annual cases dropped from ...

Within a decade, one of the three poliovirus strains was already virtually eradicated — meaning a permanent reduction of the disease to zero new cases worldwide. Polio, also known as ...

In 2022, a team of federal scientists at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention investigated a string of polio cases in Rockland County, NY, in which an epidemic hit a large Hasidic Jewish ...