Why young Africans are hesitant about them and what might change their minds COMMENT | OLUWASEYI DOLAPO SOMEFUN & MARISA ...

Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has misleadingly claimed that vaccines are not tested in ...

Young people also suggested household visits to people who were immobile because of age, illness or disability. Many ...

These were the shots that were going to end polio. Iron lung was a big deal back then and it was scary,” said Lonergan. Gail Adams Batt was 6 years old when she received the vaccine at Franklin ...

The World Health Organisation said on Tuesday that circulating vaccine-derived poliovirus type 2 (cVDPV2) had been detected ...

The World Health Organisation said on Tuesday that circulating vaccine-derived poliovirus type 2 (cVDPV2) had been detected ...

Almost all of them are at least 70 years old, because vaccines developed in the 1950s all but wiped out the disease. Even though the polio threat has nearly disappeared, children in the U.S. today ...

because it is a 70-year-old technology,” said one scientist who works in vaccine development, noting this was the method used by Jonas Salk to create the world’s first polio vaccine in the ...

However, just a few days before, a 2-year-old Livingston boy was stricken with ... in demonstrating the efficacy of the Salk-type polio vaccine, this crippling disease was eradicated from the ...

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

Despite years of mass immunisation campaigns and growing awareness, polio vaccine rejection however ... In Itas-Gadau, 27-year-old Bashir Ahmed refused to vaccinate his two children, citing ...