“So long as polio is still present in the world, the benefits of protecting children against paralysis far exceed any risks of this highly effective vaccine, particularly for the inactivated ...

Every aspect of Grace Rossow’s life since she was around nine months old has been affected by polio. The vaccine-preventable gastrointestinal disease attacks the nervous system and can cause ...

It will allow health workers to administer vaccines with the aim of reaching some 640,000 Palestinian children. The vaccination campaign comes after the first polio case in 25 years in Gaza was ...

If it’s polio? But wait! Before moving to India with Aaron and his baby sister, we were all injected with everything modern science had to offer. If there was a vaccine, we got it: rabies ...

Although Kennedy recently expressed support for the polio vaccine, he had previously repeated statements that researchers say are not backed by science. The New York Times last year reported that ...

As he is poised for a full Senate vote in the days to come, CNN looked at the origins and prevention effectiveness for just one of the vaccines that Kennedy has repeatedly questioned in the past: the ...

Here is what we know about polio as a disease, its vaccines and the likely number of lives saved through inoculation. In its early stages, poliomyelitis — known as polio — causes fatigue ...