The Global Polio Eradication Initiative (GPEI) needs more funds and has pushed back by three years its target to officially ...

And yet against all odds, we’ve been able to administer the first doses of the polio vaccine to 559,161 children. I have been ...

Aid groups carried out an initial round of vaccinations last month after a baby in Gaza was partially paralyzed from the ...

The global polio eradication hinges on timely reporting of polioviruses and rapid responses. Despite considerable efforts made during the past three decades to contain polio, the WHO African (AFRO) ...

President Roosevelt founded Warm Springs as a polio treatment center. Polio clinics were built throughout the nation. Two vaccines were developed and school children stood in line to receive the ...

The Global Polio Eradication Initiative has lost its way in terms of polio eradication by focusing on eliminating the poliovirus with mass rounds of the oral poliovirus vaccine (OPV).1,2 The result ...

There may be no greater demonstration of vaccines’ power to deliver health equity than their success with smallpox. “The ...

WHO says early polio vaccination targets in Gaza surpassed “This is a rigorous exercise that will investigate some of the concerns we’ve seen in the public domain. It’s an elaborate process ...

The first round of an international campaign to vaccinate children in the Gaza Strip against polio ended in mid-September ... crossed the border to Gaza as early as September 2023.

The virus, enterovirus D68, is one of "100 non-polio enteroviruses," according to Cleveland Clinic’s website ... Wastewater samples can point to early warning signs of infectious diseases ...

My mother had to live on the streets to protect me' Government allocates Sh1.2b to cure vaccine shortage Hesitant mothers told to visit hospitals for jabs WHO says early polio vaccination targets ...