By 2025, more than 13 billion doses of the vaccine are estimated to have been administered globally, saving untold millions of lives and suffering.

Indonesia’s polio outbreak has officially ended, the World Health Organization announced Friday, marking the close of a nearly three-year effort

On April 12, 1955, researchers announced the first polio vaccine, which was instantly approved. Before vaccines were available, polio caused 15,000 cases of paralysis in the US each year. The US eliminated the disease in 1979, but it hasn't been fully ...

The World Health Organization has declared Indonesia’s polio outbreak officially over, following nearly three years of intensive response efforts, officials said Friday. Indonesia has remained largely polio-free as the highly contagious disease was declared eliminated in the country in 2014.

Kwara and 20 other states will repeat their polio vaccination campaign due to logistical gaps and access issues, reports the WHO.

The Adamawa State Government is set to commence a fresh round of anti-polio vaccination targeting more than 1.3 million children. Addressing a media

The search for vaccines to fight poliomyelitis started in the 1920s, but it wasn't until the 1950s that the search bore fruit with the introduction of two vaccines. The first was the Salk inactivated polio vaccine (IPV), which was developed in 1955.

Lucas James relies on others to be vaccinated because, for now, he can’t be. A leukemia patient and stem cell transplant recipient, Lucas, 16, of Hempfield receives intravenous antibody treatments to help him rebuild his immune system.