The Global Polio Eradication Initiative is redirecting samples to other laboratories following orders for the U.S. CDC to cut ...

Polio, a disease that can cause lifelong paralysis, has been eliminated from the U.S. Experts fear a resurgence if lifesaving ...

Data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention shows more parents are choosing to not vaccinate their children ...

Polio cases are surging in both countries. Can Pakistan and Afghanistan collaborate on eradicating the virus, even as their ...

Health officials in western Texas are trying to contain a measles outbreak among mostly school-aged children, with at least 15 confirmed cases. It's the latest outbreak of a disease that had been ...

Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s repeated support for vaccines during Senate confirmation hearings follows a long history of ...

Every new government changes the leadership of the polio programme without realising how negatively it might impact it.

Police is a highly infectious disease that invades the nervous system and can cause total paralysis in a matter of hours.

The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) said that, although polio was once of the most feared diseases, it was eradicated thanks to a vaccine that’s been administered ...