As vaccination rates among children continue to plummet, concerns are rising over the potential for infectious disease to ...

Roland Sutter, who has been working on polio eradication for decades, thinks this will be an important step. The addition of this six-in-one vaccine to Gavi’s portfolio “is probably the best ...

The polio vaccine has all but obliterated the illness that once killed thousands and paralyzed 15,000 people nationwide every year.

W hen a new and hoped-to-be safer oral polio vaccine started to make its way into use in March 2021, there was huge optimism that this long-needed tool would help the polio eradication campaign ...

The polio vaccine — and its widespread adoption across America — are credited with dropping the number of cases from 45,000 in the two years before it was available to less than 1,000 in 1962.

Because of the polio spread in New York (which is linked to the strain also found in the UK and Israel), health officials could again introduce an oral polio vaccine, though a newer version of it.

The good news is that a new oral polio vaccine that has significantly less risk of seeding new cases is being rolled out; as of this month, 700 million does have been administered across 33 countries.

Regarding the safety of the polio vaccine, the Louisiana Department of Health assures that the long-standing vaccine safety system in the U.S. ensures that vaccines are as safe as possible.

Federal Health Minister Mustafa Kamal on Tuesday acknowledged the persistent presence of the poliovirus in the country's ...

The South Carolina Department of Public Health has updated its annual minimum immunization requirements for students to ...

When the New York State Department of Health announced a patient in Rockland County-- north of New York City -- had contracted polio, they revealed it was a case of vaccine-derived polio.. Vaccine ...

New Polio Vaccine Rolled Out In Massive Synchronized Worldwide Switch : The Two-Way 155 countries and territories are switching to a different polio vaccine, in what health officials say is the ...