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 ...

What physician Adam Ratner learned when talking to the parents of unvaccinated children who contracted measles during the ...

The measles outbreak is surging in West Texas, especially in under-vaccinated communities, but it’s not just coverage with ...

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

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

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 ...

The World Health Organization said on Wednesday that a mass campaign to vaccinate children against polio in the Gaza Strip would resume on Saturday, with over half a million children targeted.

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.

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.