On Aug. 27, the Rutland Daily Herald reported that doctors believed an epidemic of cerebral meningitis, spinal meningitis and cerebro-spinal meningitis had hit the city and surrounding area. Over the ...

Dedicated health workers crossed Pakistan to reach 45 million children in one week with the lifesaving polio vaccine, with ...

As polio appears again, decades after it was considered eliminated in the U.S., Americans unfamiliar with the dreaded disease need a primer on protecting themselves and their young children.

High in the clouds, where the air is thin and the roads are treacherous, a group of committed health workers climbs mountains ...

Until recently, polio had been a relic of history in the U.S. Once a scourge that paralyzed or killed up to tens of thousands of children every year, the U.S. declared the disease officially ...

Schools shut down due to anticipated Saba Saba protests According to reports from Kenyans.co.ke, numerous schools throughout ...

So far, there’s been just one recent case of polio in the United States, which paralyzed a young adult in Rockland County, New York.

Polio is a highly infectious virus that can lead to paralysis and even death. It often spreads through fecal matter. This is a problem in Gaza, which has suffered destruction of much of its water ...

Today polio is found in only three countries – Pakistan, Afghanistan, and Nigeria. In 2016, only 37 cases of polio were found in those last pockets, the smallest number of new cases in history ...

Polio, 1955: Before eradication, a tragic mistake. While it's not a perfect comparison to the COVID-19 vaccine program, "the closest thing in my experience is the polio vaccine rollout," Najara said.

Northern Pakistan has reported its first Polio case in almost seven years, dealing a blow to the South Asian nation’s ...

But the problem was that the oral polio vaccine still contained live weakened Type-2 virus and while the wild Type-2 was gone, occasionally there continued to be outbreaks of vaccine-derived Type ...