It is polio, a highly contagious viral disease that attacks the nervous system, often causing partial or full paralysis.

Fifteen years after recording its last case of wild poliovirus, the WHO South-East Asia Region with a quarter of the world’s ...

In 2009, India accounted for 741 polio cases, representing 60 per cent of the global burden at the time. However, through an ...

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Fifteen years after reporting its last case of wild poliovirus, the WHO South-East Asia Region has successfully sustained its ...

Since the pandemic, more than half of counties in the U.S. reported an increase in kindergartners' opting out of vaccination ...

Fifteen years ago, a child in West Bengal was diagnosed with what would become India’s final case of wild polio. India — a nation that shouldered 60% of the world’s polio burden at one point — had ...

Lifesaving vaccines and strengthened health systems are making a difference for millions of children around the world.

UNICEF and partners have launched a campaign to vaccinate 6 million children in Sudan's Darfur states against devastating ...

MANILA – Members of the Philippine Health Insurance Corporation (PhilHealth) can avail of benefit packages of up to PHP24,765 ...

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is disrupting health care in the United States, and vaccines are one of his key targets. Here's what ...

The Trump administration just had the opportunity to dramatically curtail childhood vaccinations – and it didn’t. Today’s CDC ...