The United Nations International Children’s Emergency Fund has launched a statewide immunisation campaign aimed at vaccinating over one million children against polio in Taraba State.The campaign was ...

Polio is in the news, with vaccination under threat and recent outbreaks. This makes Alan Marshall’s classic disability ...

During his Senate confirmation hearings, Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. suggested he wouldn’t undermine vaccines.

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Elimination of Polio in 2014 and Maternal & Neonatal Tetanus in 2015, and the recent launch of the Measles Rubella campaign ...

Before the vaccines, such illnesses were the main reason why nearly one in five children in 1900 never made it to their fifth ...

In the time before widespread vaccination, young children often lost their lives to devastating infectious diseases that ran ...

In the time before widespread vaccination, young children often lost their lives to devastating infectious diseases that ran ...

Today, Smith, Ferguson and other polio survivors like John Nanni, of Delaware, spend a lot of time educating others about polio disease, the long-term complications of post-polio syndrome and the ...

Kennedy Jr. says about vaccines making daily headlines, it is timely to recognize that April 12 is the 70th anniversary of the most anticipated medical moment of the 20th century ‒ the polio vaccine.

Polio, a disease that can cause lifelong paralysis, has been eliminated from the U.S. Experts fear a resurgence if lifesaving vaccines are revoked under the new administration ...

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.