Data on the number of cases for these diseases from the pre-vaccine era is hard to come by, and even the case counts are ...

A more affordable, lower-risk polio vaccine is on the horizon, research led by the University of Leeds has found.

Currently, IPV is relatively expensive to produce because it requires high levels of bio-containment to minimise the risk of leaks of live poliovirus, which could result in outbreaks. VLPs are ...

University of Leeds researchers have taken a major step towards producing a more affordable and lower-risk polio vaccine ...

Bauchi State Muslim Pilgrims Welfare Board has announced compulsory polio vaccination for all intending pilgrims for the year ...

During the summers of the years after World War II, mothers dreaded fever in a child because these were the worst years of ...

India plans to take over polio surveillance from WHO, entrusting the work to the National Centre for Disease Control. The ...

Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. needs to be pressed on this issue.

Nobody complains that we have more cancer medicines available today than in the 1980s. Why should we complain about having ...

Scientists have developed a vaccine using virus-like particles (VLPs), which mimic the poliovirus but do not contain any ...

A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens documents your change from an old, self-centered miser to a person concerned with ...