In the time before widespread vaccination, young children often lost their lives to devastating infectious diseases that ran ...

Francis Ford Coppola is issuing a dire warning on polio amid concerns about the future of vaccines.. The Kennedy Center honoree recalled his experience with the disease after recent reports ...

Polio vaccines have helped eradicate the wild form of the disease in many regions of the world, including the Americas, Europe, Southeast Asia and Africa, according to WHO.The former ...

There's one confirmed case. And likely hundreds more. As experts try to ID the source of the virus in Gaza, a huge vaccine effort has wrapped up stage 1 and gears up for the critical stage 2.

Before the first vaccine was developed in the 1950s, polio was among the most feared diseases. An explosive 1916 outbreak in New York killed more than 2,000 people and the worst recorded U.S ...

Pakistan’s first nationwide polio campaign of 2025 launched the first week of February, aiming to vaccinate over 45.4 million children under the age of 5 in 159 of the country's 166 districts. A ...

Polio cases are resurging in 2025, with 6 new cases in Pakistan and 1 in Afghanistan. WHO warns of a potential 200,000 paralysis cases yearly if funding cuts continue.

A 10 month-old baby is the first recorded case of polio in the Gaza city of Deir al-Balah, the Palestinian health ministry said Friday. The child, who had symptoms of the highly infectious disease ...

A health worker administers polio drops to a child during a door-to-door vaccination campaign amidst heavy snow in the Bakwali-Surgan area of Azad Jammu Kashmir's Neelum Valley, on February 4, 2025.

Pakistan efforts to eliminate polio suffered another blow on Monday after a northern enclave reported its first case in seven years. The virus was detected in a child from the district of Diamer ...

UNICEF is working with partners to administer polio vaccines in the Gaza Strip, protecting children from the lifelong crippling disease. Limited humanitarian pauses are enabling the campaign’s ...

Before the first vaccine was developed in the 1950s, polio was among the most feared diseases. An explosive 1916 outbreak in New York killed more than 2,000 people and the worst recorded U.S ...