We're in the last mile in the fight to eradicate polio, but progress is fragile. As long as the disease is a threat anywhere, it remains a threat everywhere. A look at how UNICEF and partners are ...

Thanks to an incredibly successful vaccination program, wild poliovirus has been eliminated in the United States since 1979. For this reason, it's not a disease that you hear about often in the U.S.

Considered by public health officials to be one of the greatest success stories in recent history, the polio vaccine is currently the subject of a petition by Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s lawyer to ...

Although polio has been eliminated as an endemic disease in the United States, that isn’t true for other parts of the world. The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention issued a Level 2 travel ...

LONDON (AP) — Polio was eliminated from most parts of the world as part of a decadeslong effort by the World Health Organization and partners to wipe out the disease. But polio is one of the world’s ...

(CNN) — While Robert F. Kennedy Jr., President Donald Trump’s pick to lead the US Department of Health and Human Services, has backpedaled on his anti-vaccine rhetoric during his Senate confirmation ...

New York on Thursday had its first recorded polio case in more than a decade, bringing back bad memories for a generation that remembers when the disease was a scourge. Polio, or poliomyelitis, is a ...

Polio vaccination prevents paralysis, but survivors can develop post-polio syndrome decades later. Doctors explain its ...

As humanitarian funding cuts devastate health institutions, experts fear a foe long-vanquished from much of the world is on the brink of a rebound ...

The World Health Organization (WHO) has set about vaccinating hundreds of thousands of children in Gaza in response to the Palestinian enclave’s first polio case in 25 years. The WHO last month ...