Vaccines are a big deal. A landmark study published in The Lancet this spring calculated global vaccination efforts targeting ...

In the early 1950s, before the polio vaccine, I caught it one summer. I spent time in an isolation ward, could not move and ...

Somalia: Somalia recorded two positive environmental samples for cVDPV2.

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While polio particularly targeted children, others could contract the virus as well. When teenagers and young adults remained ...

Latest case involves WPV1 infection in Dera Ismail Khan district, which marks the 10th case in the region this year ...

At a time when roughly 4 in 10 Americans (43 percent) are considered obese, according to the World Health Organization, it is clear that something must be done to combat this growing epidemic. Kennedy ...

Pakistan reported a new polio case on Monday, taking the year’s tally to 68 in a blow to national efforts to control the crippling disease. According to the National Institutes of Health (NIH), a ...

Pakistan has reported its 68th polio case of the year, frustrating national efforts to eradicate the disease. This new case ...

St. Louis city has some of the lowest vaccination rates in the state. But counties across all parts of Missouri have also ...

The New Year brings a “say so” for Nebraska U.S. Sens. Deb Fischer and Pete Ricketts as the president-elect fills a new ...

Hospitals across the country are now facing a shortage of the Bacille Calmette-Guérin (BCG) vaccine, which protects newborns ...