Wild poliovirus was almost eradicated globally two years ago, but poor conditions are causing cases to rise in Afghanistan ...
Two countries reported new polio cases this week: Pakistan, with 3 more wild poliovirus type 1 cases (WPV1), and the ...
There are an estimated 300,000 polio survivors in the United States. For some, the nomination of Robert F. Kennedy Jr. as ...
The search to find a vaccine to prevent polio took many years and countless experiments before the disease was eventually eradicated in the United States.
Thanks to successful vaccination programs across the globe, most of the world had been declared polio-free by the 2020s.
In its original form, the virus survives in just two countries. But a type linked to an oral vaccine used in other nations ...
Can it be that what took years of research to create be undone by non-medical officials who have never stepped into a ...
I remember the day I received the vaccine. My mother took me to the local high school, where we joined a long waiting line.
The first poliovirus case of 2025 confirmed by Pakistan's National Emergency Operation Centre from Khyber Pakhtunkhwa's ...
Pakistan has reported its first polio case of 2025 from Dera Ismail Khan (DI Khan) in Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa, according to an ...
A press release issued today from the NEOC said the Regional Reference Laboratory for Polio Eradication at Islamabad’s ...