In total, childhood vaccinations have saved about 154 million lives over the past 50 years. Most of these are thanks to the ...

Polio ravaged human bodies for hundreds of years, but the misery began to wane 70 years ago when two polio vaccines developed ...

"I lost almost all of my hearing from measles. It was horrible. I was so sick. I missed so much of second grade that I went ...

On March 26, 1953, Jonas Salk announced he had successfully tested a new vaccine. Unfortunately, a defective batch was sent out produced by Cutter Laboratories of Berkeley, California that slowed down ...

Health Ministry says 602,000 children at risk of permanent paralysis over Israeli refusal to allow polio vaccines into Gaza - ...

Dr Jonas Salk announced that he had successfully developed a cure for polio. The year before, there were tens of thousands of ...

The United Nations Children’s Education Fund (UNICEF) has provided more than 2.5 million doses of Oral Polio Vaccines to the ...

The WHO's pandemic exercise was the first test of a new global coordination mechanism called the Global Health Emergency ...

Artscape CEO Marlene le Roux, a polio survivor denied access to vaccine as a child due to apartheid policies, is fighting for ...

Vaccine-derived polioviruses were detected in wastewater samples from 5 European countries in late 2024, but no human cases were reported.

The United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) has provided the Bauchi State government more than 2.5 million doses of Oral Polio Vaccine (OPV) to boost the upcoming statewide vaccination campaign ...