Data on the number of cases for these diseases from the pre-vaccine era is hard to come by, and even the case counts are ...

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 ...

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

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.

A more affordable, lower-risk polio vaccine is on the horizon, research led by the University of Leeds has found.

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 ...

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.