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 ...

Aside from recent outbreaks of polio in war-torn regions of the world, the deadly virus is close to being eradicated, thanks to vaccines. All vaccines work by training our immune systems to ...

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 ...

“Health officials and physicians do not know all the ‘whys’ of the increased number of polio cases; they do know that, despite the impressive record of the Salk vaccine, polio cannot be ...

A health worker administers a polio vaccine to a child in a school in Lahore, Pakistan Monday, April 21, 2025. Credit: AP/K.M. Chaudry On the latest episode of "Sarra Sounds Off," Half Hollow ...

The Emir of Dutse, Hamim Nuhu-Sanusi, has condemned the continuous disinformation on the safety of the polio vaccine in parts of Nigeria. Mr Nuhu-Sanusi spoke on Sunday when he led a delegation to ...

Despite years of mass immunisation campaigns and growing awareness, polio vaccine rejection however remains a troubling concern among some fathers in Bauchi State. But, the United Nations Children ...

He said that he tapped into his wealth of experience as a health expert to engage and convince skeptical households to accept the lifesaving polio vaccine. “At the moment, I can confidently ...

I loved the piece in Wednesday’s Union-Tribune about the polio vaccine, and about Jonas Salk’s selflessness. Both my husband and I went to school in the 1960s with older students who’d contracted ...