PAPUA New Guinea has taken a major step in the fight against polio, with the arrival of more than 4.6 million life-saving ...

The novel oral polio vaccine type 2 elicits intestinal immune responses similar to those induced by the traditional Sabin ...

While polio often struck children, older people were not immune. The disease consigned former President Franklin D. Roosevelt ...

The health and human services secretary has repeatedly claimed children need dozens more vaccines than they actually do.

Vaccines have increased life expectancy by reducing infectious diseases that once were the leading causes of death. Before ...

Doctors and scientists worry Alberta's measles outbreaks could signal the start of a new era when other dangerous infectious ...

The Nigerian government has delivered two million doses of polio vaccines to Kebbi State as part of a nationwide immunisation ...

Papua New Guinea (PNG) has taken a major step in the fight against polio, with the arrival of more than 4.6 million life-saving vaccine doses to kickstart a nationwide immunisation blitz. The shipment ...

Findings of a new study by researchers at Makerere University School of Public Health shows high levels of vaccine wastage in ...

Adamawa State on Saturday commenced the June 2025 oral polio vaccination targeting over 1.3 million children aged 0–59 months ...

Papua New Guinea's health minister, Elias Kapavore, says polio vaccines are set to arrive in the country next week. The World ...

Amid this backdrop, 1954 saw the launch of an ambitious, first-of-its-kind trial: the Salk vaccine was tested on over 1.6 million schoolchildren. Dubbed “Polio Pioneers,” the children were enrolled en ...