PAPUA New Guinea has taken a major step in the fight against polio, with the arrival of more than 4.6 million life-saving ...

Before widespread vaccination, nearly one in five American children died before their fifth birthday, with infectious ...

While polio often struck children, older people were not immune. The disease consigned former President Franklin D. Roosevelt ...

Critics say Kennedy is ordering a review of childhood vaccines to stoke skepticism, risking the spread of disease.

Amid this backdrop, 1954 saw the launch of an ambitious, first-of-its-kind trial: the Salk vaccine was tested on over 1.6 million schoolchildren. Dubbed “Polio Pioneers,” the children were enrolled en ...

The novel oral polio vaccine type 2 elicits intestinal immune responses similar to those induced by the traditional Sabin ...

Kennedy’s unorthodox ideas about a wide range of health subjects may appear disparate to those who haven’t trawled through ...

Papua New Guinea's health minister, Elias Kapavore, says polio vaccines are set to arrive in the country next week. The World ...

Kano State government has urged caregivers in the state to present their wards for polio vaccination, saying, the vaccine doesn’t have any health or religious ...