WASHINGTON - President-elect Donald Trump expressed support for the polio vaccine, as his pick for health secretary, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., and allies have continued their overall vaccine scrutiny and ...

The World Health Organization has declared Indonesia’s polio outbreak officially over following nearly three years of intensive response efforts ...

For years, global health officials have used billions of drops of an oral vaccine in a remarkably effective campaign aimed at wiping out polio in its last remaining strongholds — typically, poor, ...

Poliomyelitis remains a critical concern within the field of pediatric infectious diseases, particularly as efforts to ...

The search for vaccines to fight poliomyelitis started in the 1920s, but it wasn't until the 1950s that the search bore fruit with the introduction of two vaccines. The first was the Salk inactivated ...

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Sen. Bill Cassidy (R-LA), chairman of the Senate Health Committee, issued a strong statement in support of vaccines on Thursday after a controversial change was made to the Centers for Disease Control ...