This outbreak is a timely reminder that the last mile in the global eradication of polio remains elusive. As we emerge from a ...

WASHINGTON — Robert F. Kennedy Jr. clinched the political support needed to become the nation’s top health official by ...

Polio has broken out before in Papua New Guinea, with the most recent incident happening in June of 2018, after a reported 20 ...

Nuru, while acknowledging that residents of the community are gradually accepting and embracing the polio vaccines, explained that “Out of the over 2000 houses visited in the community ...

Two doses in adulthood provide around 90% protection against polio. Live and inactivated virus vaccines protect against polioviruses. The Polio Global Eradication Initiative (GEI) reported just ...

Notes distributed by the WHO's representative in PNG, Dr Sevil Huseynova, on Thursday suggested that the latest polio outbreak in the country can be attributed low vaccine rates and the virus's ...

Vaccines are available to protect against more than 30 life-threatening diseases and infections. The WHO recommends that every child should get vaccinated against 12 of those diseases: tuberculosis, ...

At a House budget hearing, Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. was asked whether he would vaccinate his ...

Kennedy, who heads the federal government's health department, said his opinions on vaccines were "irrelevant." ...

Health Minister Mustafa Kamal announced that the government will launch a nationwide anti-polio campaign on May 26, aiming to immunise more than 45 million children under the age of five.Last month, ...

Kennedy told senators at the time he was “all for” the polio vaccine. What the secretary might do and what he has done in his personal life may differ. When questioned during his confirmation ...

The vaccine is to combine GSK’s injectable polio vaccine (IPV) and Biological E’s pentavalent vaccine for diphtheria, tetanus, whooping cough (whole cell pertussis), hepatitis B, and ...