As per the report, a total of 60,906 polio vaccine refusals were reported during the nationwide drive. Notably, this was ...

During his Senate confirmation hearings, Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. suggested he wouldn’t undermine vaccines. “I ...

Pakistan reports its 13th polio case of 2025, highlighting challenges in eradication efforts amidst security issues, vaccine ...

Bandyopadhyay’s award is, in many ways, a tribute to teamwork — a theme he himself reiterates. Bandyopadhyay, 46, met Van Damme serendipitously in Brussels in 2014. At the time, Bandyopadhyay was ...

Before vaccines and public health triumphs, polio was the thing that kept parents up at night. During its peak from 1948 to 1955, the disease swept through towns across America, hitting children ...

During the summer of 1944, children under the age of 14 could not participate in some of their usual activities due to a polio outbreak in the Louisville area.

The oral vaccine is credited with dramatically reducing the number of children paralyzed by polio. When the global eradication effort began in 1988, there were about 350,000 cases of wild polio a ...

Since 2017, there have been 396 cases of polio caused by the wild virus, versus more than 2,600 linked to the oral vaccine, according to figures from the World Health Organization and its partners.

A polio case was confirmed in North Waziristan yesterday, taking this year's national tally to 14 cases. According to details, the National Emergency Operations Centre (NEOC) said that a 19-month-old ...

A child receives a polio vaccination at a relief camp near Gisenyi, Rwanda. [File Courtesy, AFP] Recent media reports have highlighted a shortage of polio vaccines in Kenya, caused by several ...