At least 13 samples collected between May 8 and June 17, tested positive for Wild Poliovirus Type 1 (WPV1). The samples were ...

The World Health Organisation has launched a three-day polio vaccination campaign in Yemen, targeting 1.3 million children ...

With IPV2 now integrated into routine immunization, Malawi’s focus shifts to maintaining high coverage, reaching zero-dose ...

Vaccination against polio began in 1955 in the United States. Cases of paralytic poliomyelitis disease plummeted from over 15,000 a year in the early 1950s to under 100 in the 1960s and then down ...

Outbreaks of polio killed thousands of people in the U.S before the introduction of the first polio vaccine in 1955. The disease spreads from person to person, usually through contamination from ...

Pakistan's battle against polio has hit a fresh setback, with the deadly virus detected in sewage samples across 20 districts ...

An unvaccinated resident of Rockland County, N.Y., exposed to a person who received an oral polio vaccine has contracted polio, health officials said; here's what to know about the vaccines.

Vaccination is just a piece of the polio response. For the next six months, officials will need to be vigilant to ensure there's no virus circulating in either the people or the wastewater of Gaza.

There is no cure for polio, but widespread vaccination has proved to be an effective prevention strategy. No cases have originated in the United States since 1979, and before July, there hadn’t ...

Polio vaccination has largely avoided the politicization and misinformation campaigns of other vaccines, Kedl says, in part because the devastation, paralysis and death the disease caused in the ...

A girl swallows a lump of sugar coated with a dose of the Sabin polio vaccine, served in a paper cup in Atlanta. AP. In the late 1940s and early 1950s, before vaccines were available, polio ...

The U.N. said more than 1.2 million doses of the oral polio vaccine arrived in Gaza, and an additional 400,000 doses are on the way. Vaccines will be delivered to 392 sites, while some 300 mobile ...