International leaders and philanthropists, including Bill Gates, announced $1.9 billion Monday in funding to advance polio eradication, but a large funding gap remains after high-income countries’ ...

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Pakistan on Monday began a two-week nationwide vaccination campaign targeting more than 57 million children, aiming to curb rising cases of measles, rubella and polio, the country's National Emergency ...

LONDON, Nov 13 (Reuters) - Germany has found the wild polio virus in a sewage sample in Hamburg, the first such detection in Europe since 2010. Polio, short for poliomyelitis, is an infectious disease ...

Now is the time to pull through on efforts to rid the world of polio once and for all — or continue managing it through costly outbreak responses, UNICEF argues in a new call to action. Support UNICEF ...

Dr. Alok Patel explains how diseases like polio, measles, chickenpox and tetanus spread rapidly before vaccines, and what removing mandates like those in Florida could mean for public health. US ...

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A 360-degree look at the dedicated health workers crossing Pakistan to reach 45 million children in one week with the lifesaving polio vaccine, with support from UNICEF and Rotary International. A ...

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 the ...

One of the first modifications many enthusiasts make to their ride is adding a cold-air intake. This replaces the stock intake, a complex, convoluted contraption of pipes and baffles that keep the ...

Measles, rubella, polio and diphtheria—once ubiquitous, devastating and deeply feared—have been virtually eliminated from the U.S. for decades. Entire generations have barely encountered these ...

With rising measles outbreaks and what Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. says about vaccines making daily headlines, it is timely to recognize that April 12 is the 70th ...