After the election, President Donald Trump named Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to lead the Department of Health and Human Services. For decades, Kennedy has publicly opposed vaccines, and has involved himself ...

While in 2020 Nigeria had been declared Polio free, cases have not fully vanished. New cases have been reported in Nigeria.

NEW YORK (AP) — The polio virus has been found in New York City’s wastewater in another sign that the disease, which hadn’t been seen in the U.S. in a decade, is quietly spreading among unvaccinated ...

SANTA MONICA, Calif. (KABC) -- Doctors are now using a virus from a disease that's been largely eradicated to fight brain tumors. The polio virus is the latest weapon ...

That said, polio boosters do exist. The CDC says that adults who are “at increased risk of exposure to poliovirus” and ...

The search for vaccines to fight poliomyelitis started in the 1920s, but it wasn't until the 1950s that the search bore fruit with the introduction of two vaccines. The first was the Salk inactivated ...

U.K. health authorities have said they are urgently investigating a rare polio virus discovery in sewage samples in London, potentially putting Britain's polio-free status at risk for the first time ...

The European Regional Commission for the Certification of Poliomyelitis Eradication (RCC) has warned that Europe’s long-held polio-free status could be at risk due to inadequately enforced and ...

In the basement of the Harvard Medical School library sits one of the external ventilators, which became a symbol inspiring ...

Children ages 1-9 in London were made eligible for booster doses of a polio vaccine Wednesday after British health authorities reported finding evidence the virus has spread in multiple areas of the ...

KARACHI: Expressing displeasure over the detection of two more poliovirus cases in the province this month, Sindh Chief ...