Unidentified gunmen shot and killed on Monday a police officer working on Pakistan’s first polio vaccination drive of the ...

Here is what we know about polio as a disease, its vaccines and the likely number of lives saved through inoculation.

Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif has formally launched the first anti-polio drive of the year 2025 to eradicate the poliovirus from the country and expressed strong resolve that through international ...

With 16 districts infected, Punjab faces significant risks of poliovirus transmission, particularly from regions where the virus remains endemic. In response, Punjab is set to launch the first ...

It was no small effort. On Polio Days, an army of 2.6 million health workers and volunteers fanned out across India to immunize 175 million children under the age of 5. Children were vaccinated on ...

We've snatched defeat from the jaws of victory," said Zulfiqar Bhutta, of the Hospital for Sick Children in Toronto, Canada. The reason, Bhutta writes in a commentary in The Lancet, is that polio ...

AUSTIN, Texas — In the early 1950s, it was hard to avoid seeing the heartbreaking pictures in magazines and newspapers of children stricken with polio, a virus that struck fear in parents ...

I was in kindergarten, and medical protocol for the new vaccine limited the vaccine to children in second grade. Unvaccinated, I contracted polio in September of 1954. Fortunately, I was among the ...

Older folks remember polio as the extremely contagious scourge of our youth, killing millions of children around the world. Polio completely paralyzed some children to the point of being unable to ...