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.

Sindh Chief Minister Syed Murad Ali Shah launched the National Immunization Days (NIDs) campaign for February 2025 by administering polio drops to children and reaffirmed his government's strong ...

The Karachi administration has launched a direct contact campaign with parents who refused to administer polio drops to make the polio eradication efforts more effective. This is to ensure that ...

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 ...

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 ...

If anyone should have lobbied against the use of vaccines in this country, it was my family. My Aunt Jean, my father’s older sister, was a victim of the infamous Cutter vaccine, an early variant ...

While polio has been a threat to the health and wellbeing of children for centuries, it is a mostly forgotten disease for the vast majority of people in Europe. Thanks to successful vaccination ...