Consistently high vaccination rates and global health surveillance programs have helped eliminate poliomyelitis (polio) in almost all countries of the world, except Afghanistan and Pakistan. Yet ...

Despite some of the most successful international vaccination campaigns in history, the poliovirus continues to circulate around the world, posing a threat of neurological damage and even paralysis to ...

(via TEDEd) In 1952, polio was everywhere: killing or paralyzing roughly half a million people annually. Yet just 10 years later, paralytic polio cases in the US dropped by 96% and we were on track to ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) issued a stark warning to Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and other skeptics of vaccines on ...

Consistently high vaccination rates and global health surveillance programs have helped eliminate poliomyelitis (polio) in almost all countries of the world, except Afghanistan and Pakistan. Yet ...

Mitch McConnell pushed back Friday after it was revealed that an ally of Robert F. Kennedy Jr., President-elect Trump's nominee for Health and Human Services secretary, petitioned the FDA two years ...

Polio remains only in the global regions where vaccine rates are low. The U.S. should take heed.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Senate Republican leader and polio survivor Mitch McConnell on Friday condemned “dangerous” efforts to abolish the polio vaccine ...

Shortly after the federal government approved the Salk polio vaccine in 1955, I joined the tidal wave of youngsters vaccinated against polio. Not surprisingly perhaps, my parents expressed more ...

In 1952, polio was everywhere.For years, this virus killed or paralyzed roughly half a million people annually, leaving survivors reliant on crutches, wheelchairs, and respirators.Yet just 10 years ...