PHOTO: Polio vaccination being administered to a child [FB] The World Health Organization (WHO) has commended the government over a vaccination campaign that resulted in over 920,000 children being ...

In Europe ten people died from measles in 2024, and the US has had several major outbreaks. Bird flu has affected dairy herds in 17 US states from North Carolina to California and has just been ...

Deborah Gurgel Smith of LSU Health Shreveport School of Allied Health Professions discusses ramifications of the State Health ...

Concerns were raised in late 2024 when 94 confirmed polio-affected children were reported across 15 Nigerian states. No ...

The former administrator of the U.S. Agency for International Development says major funding cuts to the agency could lead to more cases of diseases such as paralytic polio and malaria.

Organizations funded by the United States helped keep dangerous pathogens in check around the world. Now many safeguards are ...

Rates of nearly all required childhood vaccinations have fallen in Lancaster County since the 2018-2019 school year, ...

Five countries reported polio cases this week, including Pakistan, which reported three cases of wild poliovirus type (WPV1), ...

Many doctors have never seen measles in person. The Texas outbreak is reshaping how health systems prepare for drops in vaccinations.

In the post-pandemic era, vaccination for all kinds of diseases has become a hot-button issue, increasingly so with the confirmation ...

If I were a Senator conducting a confirmation hearing for Dr. Marty Makary, the nominee to be the next commissioner of the Food and Drug ...

As measles — a preventable disease the U.S. considered eliminated in 2000 — spreads through West Texas’ rural expanse, ...