On Aug. 27, the Rutland Daily Herald reported that doctors believed an epidemic of cerebral meningitis, spinal meningitis and cerebro-spinal meningitis had hit the city and surrounding area. Over the ...

Dedicated health workers crossed Pakistan to reach 45 million children in one week with the lifesaving polio vaccine, with ...

As per the report, a total of 60,906 polio vaccine refusals were reported during the nationwide drive. Notably, this was ...

Pakistan reports its 13th polio case of 2025, highlighting challenges in eradication efforts amidst security issues, vaccine ...

In the early 20th century, poliomyelitis, or polio, struck fear in parents around the world. The viral infection affects the ...

During the summer of 1944, children under the age of 14 could not participate in some of their usual activities due to a polio outbreak in the Louisville area.

Before vaccines and public health triumphs, polio was the thing that kept parents up at night. During its peak from 1948 to 1955, the disease swept through towns across America, hitting children ...

He claimed that Gavi had “ignored the science” about vaccine safety. He had already dismissed all seventeen members of the ...

The oral vaccine is credited with dramatically reducing the number of children paralyzed by polio. When the global eradication effort began in 1988, there were about 350,000 cases of wild polio a ...

A polio case was confirmed in North Waziristan yesterday, taking this year's national tally to 14 cases. According to details, the National Emergency Operations Centre (NEOC) said that a 19-month-old ...

LONDON (AP) — 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 ...

Model predicts millions of cases, hospitalizations, and deaths if routine childhood vaccination rates decline significantly.