"I lost almost all of my hearing from measles. It was horrible. I was so sick. I missed so much of second grade that I went ...

Bill Nye critiqued HHS chief Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and his views on science and vaccines at a STAT event in New York.

On March 26, 1953, Jonas Salk announced he had successfully tested a new vaccine. Unfortunately, a defective batch was sent out produced by Cutter Laboratories of Berkeley, California that slowed down ...

Polio ravaged human bodies for hundreds of years, but the misery began to wane 70 years ago when two polio vaccines developed in the U.S. halted the virus’ spread.

Dr Jonas Salk announced that he had successfully developed a cure for polio. The year before, there were tens of thousands of ...

Vaccine-derived polioviruses were detected in wastewater samples from 5 European countries in late 2024, but no human cases were reported.

Pakistan is one of only two countries where polio remains endemic and it is aiming to eradicate it by 2027, but with cases ...

Vaccination not only safeguards the health of individuals but also preserves the collective health of our communities, ...

It will allow health workers to administer vaccines with the aim of reaching some 640,000 Palestinian children. The vaccination campaign comes after the first polio case in 25 years in Gaza was ...

I lived in a poor, Black community in Winston Salem, North Carolina, and was one of two children in 1959 who contracted polio as a result of getting the oral vaccine. I also had measles, tonsillitis ...

Pakistan's Regional Reference Laboratory for Polio Eradication has detected Wild Poliovirus Type 1 in sewage samples from 18 ...