Laos was declared polio free in 2000, joining all the other countries that had successfully wiped out polio. But in 2016, a ...

The Regional Reference Laboratory for Polio Eradication at the National Institute of Health has confirmed the presence of ...

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Polk County’s level of immunization for kindergartners dropped from 96.3% in 2021 to 93.2% in 2023, still above the statewide ...

Here’s why doctors recommend getting specific shots at specific times — as well as what happens when parents stray from that ...

Before the development of the first poliovirus vaccine in 1955, poliomyelitis paralysed and killed up to half a million people every year.  By 2000, mass vaccination campaigns, armed with new types of ...

Changing the membership of an obscure advisory committee could have an outsized effect on Americans’ protection against ...

Wild poliovirus was almost eradicated globally two years ago, but poor conditions are causing cases to rise in Afghanistan ...

The search to find a vaccine to prevent polio took many years and countless experiments before the disease was eventually eradicated in the United States.

The search to find a vaccine to prevent polio took many years and countless experiments before the disease was eventually eradicated in the United States.

Senators should not be fooled by Kennedy’s posturing and should demand straight answers from him, because our children’s ...