Australia’s child vaccination rates used to be among the best in the world. But after peaking in 2020, they’re falling.

The Regional Reference Laboratory for Polio Eradication at the National Institute of Health (NIH) has confirmed the detection of the third wild poliovirus type 1 (WPV1) case of 2025.The lab confirmed ...

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Daughter of reporter and editor Bill Cunningham on a quest to collect his accounts of iron lung treatment and physical therapy he received while recovering.

On the eve of the vote in the West Virginia Senate scheduled today on whether to grant broad religious and philosophical exemptions for the state’s school-age mandatory immunization program, two ...

The battle over vaccines is back at the State House. A bill is headed to the House floor, recommended for passage, that will ...

Polio is a dangerous disease that’s been largely eliminated in the United States, thanks to the polio vaccine (aka the inactivated polio vaccine, or IPV). To stay safe and maintain immunity in your ...

A bill to create a religious exemption for school children’s vaccination requirements has passed the West Virginia Senate.

Over 30 years, pediatrician Debbie Greenhouse has seen the worst of what infectious diseases can do but never seen a child ...

COVID-19 showed the flaws in our approach to vaccine communication. Two public health experts suggest ways to fix them.

CHARLESTON, W.Va. (WVVA) - UPDATE: 2/21/25 The Senate has passed Senate Bill 460 on its third reading with the support of 20 senators, 12 in opposition and 2 abstaining. The W.Va. Senate is expected ...

CHARLESTON, W.Va. (WVVA) - The W.Va. Senate is expected to vote on whether or not to approve a broad expansion of exemptions ...