I remember the day I received the vaccine. My mother took me to the local high school, where we joined a long waiting line. It was a warm day, and we stood outside. My mother was wearing a summer dress, and the skirt blew against her legs. I remember how happy she was.

There are an estimated 300,000 polio survivors in the United States. For some, the nomination of Robert F. Kennedy Jr. as health secretary is reviving their painful memories.

In its original form, the virus survives in just two countries. But a type linked to an oral vaccine used in other nations has already turned up in the West.

Then there’s this: Aaron Siri, Kennedy’s lawyer and the person helping him pick top federal health officials, according to The New York Times, has petitioned the US Food and Drug Administration to revoke approval of the polio vaccine used in this country as well as those for 13 other infectious diseases.

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My Aunt Jean, my father’s older sister, was a victim of the infamous Cutter vaccine, an early variant of the polio vaccine presumed to contain an inactivated version of the live virus.

Can it be that what took years of research to create be undone by non-medical officials who have never stepped into a research laboratory?

Diseases that were once nearly wiped out, such as measles and polio, are making a comeback nationwide. Experts say much of this is fueled by a decline in vaccination rates and a growing divide over vaccine safety.

Wild poliovirus was almost eradicated globally two years ago, but poor conditions are causing cases to rise in Afghanistan and spill into Pakistan.Before the development of the first poliovirus vaccine in 1955,

Robert F. Kennedy Jr., President Trump’s nominee to be health secretary, would have oversight power over the vaccine’s maker, Merck, if confirmed.

A notice shared via the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services website notes immigrants will no longer be asked to show evidence of having received the vaccine. Applications that do not report a COVID vaccination status will not be denied under the change, according to the notice.

Donald Trump’s more controversial personnel choices have prompted fears that Tulsi Gabbard would compromise intelligence operations and Pam Bondi and Kash Patel would target political enemies over dangerous criminals.