His earliest memory is the day he left the polio treatment center for the final time. Of course, Addison’s weak left leg ...

Inactivated polio vaccine (IPV) is made from an inactive or killed virus. That means it can’t infect you. Kids in the U.S. get the IPV shot. So your child's overall risk of getting polio from ...

On an August morning in 1949, when I was six, I got out of bed and collapsed on the floor. By evening, I was paralyzed from the neck down and in an iron lung. I spent the next five months in a polio ...

Polio was eliminated from most parts of the world as part of a decades-long effort by the World Health Organization and ...

“If you drop immunization rates low enough in various areas, polio could come back,” said Dr. Paul Offit, the director of the Vaccine Education Center at the Philadelphia Children’s Hospita ...

A large-scale polio vaccination campaign brought hope to Gaza's children. A new blockade on further humanitarian aid delivery threatens emergency relief efforts.

Pakistan’s first nationwide polio campaign of 2025 launched the first week of February, aiming to vaccinate over 45.4 million children under the age of 5 in 159 of the country's 166 districts.

It aims to vaccinate more than 591,000 children under 10, the WHO said. A mass polio vaccination campaign is set to continue in Gaza after the virus was recently detected in wastewater samples.

Officials say Pakistan has reported two new cases of polio in its southern and eastern provinces, posing a setback to the country’s efforts to eradicate a disease that remains endemic only in Pakistan ...