On April 12, 1955, the world received the news that Jonas Salk’s polio vaccine was “safe, effective and potent.” This declaration marked the beginning of the end for a disease that had ...

followed by a fractional IPV-OPV Polio (injectable polio vaccine) campaign in Quetta and Karachi on Feb 20 and 22, respectively. Around 1 million children were targeted for vaccination in this ...

These new cases are tied to disruptions in ongoing vaccine campaigns. Global health officials say there's real concern that those numbers could balloon and that polio could reemerge in other ...

A game changer arrived in the spring of 1955, and eager parents started lining up their kids to receive a dose of a new polio vaccine, a much-anticipated weapon against this devastating and feared ...

The Jigawa State Government has disclosed plans to vaccinate no fewer than 1.9 million children under the age of five against the polio virus. A week-long immunisation campaign has been scheduled ...