The World Health Organization and partners embarked on their polio campaign in 1988 with the bold goal of eradication — a feat seen only once with smallpox in 1980.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) updated its global travel alert for polio, warning Americans against the ...

Fake immunisation records, an imperfect vaccine, and leadership missteps have enabled polio’s comeback, an investigation ...

1:41 Doctors cite concern over polio vaccine politics in U.S. Polio, a highly contagious viral infection that can cause paralysis and death, has been eradicated in Canada for decades thanks to ...

Polio vaccination rates were below 90 per cent in British Columbia and Manitoba, and close to just 80 per cent in Nunavut, while uptake in specific communities can vary and may have been disrupted ...

In the 1950s, two polio vaccines were developed: a live attenuated vaccine administered orally (the Sabin vaccine), and an inactivated vaccine given by injection (the Salk vaccine). A live attenuated ...

More than 600,000 children under the age of 10 will receive the oral vaccine against polio after the first case was confirmed by WHO in Gaza. The fighting will pause for at least eight hours a day ...