A senior World Health Organization official cautioned Wednesday that the eradication of polio in Afghanistan and Pakistan, ...
Polio is a highly infectious disease that invades the nervous system and can cause total paralysis in a matter of hours.
Pakistan reported at least 73 cases last year, up from only one in 2021, and the disease is now rapidly spreading in the country’s most volatile regions.
When her 5-year-old son’s legs stopped working and a doctor said the word “polio,” this writer felt a terror she never ...
Senator Bernie Sanders, Independent of Vermont, brought up the Children’s Health Defense, which is the organization Mr.
The tech billionaire and global health innovator says Trump "showed a lot of interest in the issues that I brought up" The ...
Vaccination rates for shots that prevent diseases like polio, measles and others have fallen dramatically for some of the ...
There are an estimated 300,000 polio survivors in the United States. For some, the nomination of Robert F. Kennedy Jr. as ...
Polio reached its apex in the United States in 1952, with roughly 58,000 new cases of the disease reported. People spent ...