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A more affordable, lower-risk polio vaccine is on the horizon, research led by the University of Leeds has found.

To stay safe and maintain immunity in your community, your child will need to get his first dose of the vaccine when he's 2 months old. Learn more about what the polio vaccine protects against and ...

As the measles outbreak in the U.S. spreads, experts fear that other preventable diseases, including polio, rubella, and mumps, could return. Here’s what you can do to stay safe.

University of Leeds researchers have taken a major step towards producing a more affordable and lower-risk polio vaccine ...

Coverage with measles-mumps-rubella (MMR), diphtheria-tetanus-acellular pertussis (DTaP), polio ... less than 1 year old. It most severely affects infants but the DTaP vaccine can prevent nine ...