How Lagging Vaccination Could Lead to a Polio Resurgence
In its original form, the virus survives in just two countries. But a type linked to an oral vaccine used in other nations ...
As Polio Survivors Watch Kennedy Confirmation, All Eyes Are on McConnell
There are an estimated 300,000 polio survivors in the United States. For some, the nomination of Robert F. Kennedy Jr. as ...
My mother had polio. We thought it was gone for good.
I remember the day I received the vaccine. My mother took me to the local high school, where we joined a long waiting line.
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This is what polio does. Giving up on the vaccine is madness.
Regarding the Dec. 14 article “RFK Jr. ally petitioned FDA on polio vaccine’s approval”: Polio used to be a fearsome adversary. In 1952, the peak year for infections in the United States ...
Seattle Times11d
How Lagging Vaccination Could Lead to a Polio Resurgence
If polio vaccination rates were to fall ... She didn’t participate in the 1963 March on Washington or play sports, as she desperately wanted to, or go hiking, skiing and bicycling with her ...
STAT28d
People from India remember life before the polio vaccine. They don’t want to go back
The CDC recommends that all children get four doses of the polio vaccine, and all 50 states as well as Washington, D.C., require children entering public school or daycare to receive polio ...
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An Infinite Game Is No Match for Vaccine Cynicism
The originator of the "infinite game" Candy Land designed it as therapy for hospitalized children who were victims of the ...
What’s Getting in the Way of RFK Jr.’s Confirmation Hearing?
Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s nomination for health and human services secretary has stalled as Senate Democrats and Republicans ...
Bill Gates Says Trump ‘Impressed’ Him Over 3-Hour Dinner in Push to End HIV, Polio | Video
The tech billionaire and global health innovator says Trump "showed a lot of interest in the issues that I brought up" The ...
MIT Technology Review10h
The US withdrawal from the WHO will hurt us all
The US is the biggest donor to the WHO, and the loss of this income is likely to have a significant impact on the ...
St. Louis Post-Dispatch24d
In Missouri, 9% of kindergarten students are not vaccinated against measles, polio
a pediatrician with Mercy Hospital Washington in Franklin County, where polio vaccination rates have fallen in recent years to 91%. “Personally, as a parent of two young boys, that is kind of a ...
The party’s over before it began
MAKING HER DEBUT (SORT OF): Although it wasn’t in the form of a press briefing, White House press secretary KAROLINE LEAVITT took her first questions from the media on Wednesday from the freezing ...