Polio

A new vaccine bill passed West Virginia's Senate 18-12, and now awaits Gov. Jim Justice's approval before it can be signed into law.

The percentage of school-aged American children who've received routine childhood vaccines, while still high, has dropped again during ...

NEW YORK—Philadelphia and Oakland County, Michigan, are joining the small list of U.S. localities that are looking for ...

Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation said on Sunday that it will commit $1.2 billion to support efforts to ...

There is a fresh call for Australia to create a national polio surveillance network as Victoria increases its ...

New York Gov. Kathy Hochul declared a state of disaster on Friday after samples of the polio virus ...

Authorities in New York City on Friday said polio has been detected in New York City's sewage, suggesting ...

Rare, locally transmitted poliovirus was detected in seven wastewater samples of Orange and Rockland counties in New York, ...

WASHINGTON—The polio virus was present in wastewater in a New York City suburb a month before health officials ...

DERA ISMAIL KHAN, Pakistan—Pakistan's polio count for the year has risen to 13 with one case reported on ...

New York City on July 21 reported the United States' first case of polio in nearly a decade. ...

The New York State Health Department on July 21 confirmed a polio case and called on health care ...

The UK government's health agency is investigating "vaccine-derived" polioviruses found in sewage samples. Tony Siragusa, the former Ravens ...

The UK's health authorities on Wednesday called on parents to have their children updated on polio vaccines as ...

PESHAWAR, Pakistan—Gunmen shot and killed a Pakistani policeman who was providing security for polio vaccination workers in the ...

MANILA, Philippines—A polio outbreak in the Philippines has ended, according to the World Health Organization and the United ...

Commentary For many Americans, the COVID-19 pandemic has resurfaced fears we faced in decades past. Not long ago, ...

LAGOS—Nigerian Gbemisola Ijigbamigbe's right leg was virtually paralyzed after she contracted wild polio aged 11 months. Now the 28-year-old leads ...

A polio survivor married the love of his life, but when the happy couple's wedding photos were shared ...

There has been a recent upsurge in cases of a rare Polio-like illness across the United States, which ...

It is estimated that approximately half of the 19.5 million registered refugees at a global level are children ...

NEW YORK—The word "virus" conjures up images of nasty, wormlike organisms, mean-looking spiked balls, and a fear of ...

It is a subject that the Taliban and Jenny McCarthy agree on. They both oppose vaccinations. Of course, ...

The variety of polio cases identified in Pakistan up until now this year stands at 202, according to ...

Two records were broken in Sydney on Friday, as more than 300 Rotary International members climbed the city's ...