ISLAMABAD (AP) — Pakistan began Monday a weeklong second nationwide vaccination campaign aimed at protecting 45 million ...

In a nutshell At current vaccination rates, measles could become endemic in the US again within 21 years, with researchers ...

Officials say gunmen have shot and killed two security officials assigned to protect polio workers in restive southwestern Pakistan ...

ISLAMABAD — Pakistan began Monday a weeklong second nationwide vaccination campaign aimed at protecting 45 million children from polio, officials said. According to the World Health Organization ...

In a renewed effort to eradicate circulating polio variant type 2 in the Lake Chad Basin, Ministers of Health from Cameroon, the Central African Republic, Chad, Niger and Nigeria has launched a ...

She noted that two of the cases were detected through Acute Flaccid Paralysis (AFP) surveillance, while the third was identified through Environmental Surveillance (ES) ...

One Washington County boy played a particularly crucial role in the vaccine’s development. Blood from Jimmy Sarkett, who hailed from Daisytown, was used by Salk because he had the rarest type of polio ...

according to University of Washington Magazine. "The kids were among the very first humans to get the vaccine," Joyce said. Salk then injected children who had already had polio. He noted that ...

In 2000, measles was declared eliminated in the United States after 12 months of no reported spread. Thanks to a ...

A childhood vaccination that includes a polio dose is prepared at the Dallas County Health ... but details are starting to ...

The Pan American Health Organisation (PAHO) is calling for urgent action to address gaps in immunisation coverage as countries in the Americas, including the Caribbean, confront outbreaks of ...