The nationwide drive to get Americans of all ages vaccinated against polio was snarled last week in a furious controversy over the safety of the Sabin oral vaccine, Type III. Among 1962’s ...

There is no patent. Could you patent the sun?" Later in the 1950s, Albert Sabin, a physician and microbiologist, developed a second polio vaccine. Unlike Salk's IPV, this vaccine was delivered ...

The first round of an international campaign to vaccinate children in the Gaza Strip against polio ended in mid-September, with nearly 560,000 kids receiving initial doses amid staggered ...

The first wave of a massive vaccination campaign against polio is wrapping up in Gaza. The World Health Organization (WHO) says that in less than two weeks, they’ve helped administer more than ...

This journey was the consequence of a fateful decision by global health organizations to pare down the oral polio vaccine in 2016. The move, now called “the switch,” was intended to help ...

The first case of polio in Gaza in 25 years was detected in July. The last day of the polio vaccination campaign is wrapping up in Gaza, the World Health Organization (WHO) said Thursday.

The Conversation: Given that polio was all but eradicated in this region of the world, how might the 10-month-old baby in Gaza have caught it? Lee Sherry: The sequences of the polioviruses ...

As cases of poliovirus see significant rise in the country, Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif on Sunday launched a special anti-polio vaccination campaign as the government in a bid to eradicate the ...

A nationwide anti-polio campaign is set to begin tomorrow (Monday) with the aim of vaccinating over 30 million children up to the age of five, state broadcaster Radio Pakistan reported on Sunday.

Nigeria’s difficult victory over polio faces a challenge as the poliovirus type 2 variant reemerges and the nation considers new measures to tackle the outbreak. Nigeria eradicated wild polio in ...