According to healthychildren.org, childhood vaccines consistently remain at very high and beneficial levels of safety and efficacy.

His earliest memory is the day he left the polio treatment center for the final time. Of course, Addison’s weak left leg ...

Inactivated polio vaccine (IPV) is made from an inactive or killed virus. That means it can’t infect you. Kids in the U.S. get the IPV shot. So your child's overall risk of getting polio from ...

A large-scale polio vaccination campaign brought hope to Gaza's children. A new blockade on further humanitarian aid delivery threatens emergency relief efforts.

Pakistan’s first nationwide polio campaign of 2025 launched the first week of February, aiming to vaccinate over 45.4 million children under the age of 5 in 159 of the country's 166 districts.

It aims to vaccinate more than 591,000 children under 10, the WHO said. A mass polio vaccination campaign is set to continue in Gaza after the virus was recently detected in wastewater samples.

Currently, IPV is relatively expensive to produce because it requires high levels of bio-containment to minimise the risk of leaks of live poliovirus, which could result in outbreaks. VLPs are ...

Michael McGovern, chair of the Rotary International Polio plus committee, says the charity organisation has spent $3 billion ...

KARACHI: Pakistan reported its sixth polio case of the year on Saturday, confirmed by the Pakistan Polio Programme, from ...

The World Health Organization said on Wednesday that a mass campaign to vaccinate children against polio in the Gaza Strip would resume on Saturday, with over half a million children targeted.

“If you drop immunization rates low enough in various areas, polio could come back,” said Dr. Paul Offit, the director of the Vaccine Education Center at the Philadelphia Children’s Hospita ...