Polio may finally be defeated in the next 5 years. Will the world recognize what an extraordinary achievement that is?

KARACHI, Pakistan -- For the past decade, Sughra Ayaz has traveled door to door in southeastern Pakistan, pleading with parents to allow children to be vaccinated against polio as part of a global ...

The search for vaccines to fight poliomyelitis started in the 1920s, but it wasn't until the 1950s that the search bore fruit with the introduction of two vaccines. The first was the Salk inactivated ...

A new $1.9 billion pledge to the Global Polio Eradication Initiative was just announced at the “Investing in Humanity: ...

Wearing masks, avoiding large gatherings, shutting down schools—those scenes might sound familiar to anyone who experienced the most recent global pandemic. Subscribe to our newsletter for the latest ...

The world nearly wiped out polio — now a deadly curveball is putting that victory in doubt. A massive $1.9B plan is racing to stop the backslide.

Before vaccines and public health triumphs, polio was the thing that kept parents up at night. During its peak from 1948 to 1955, the disease swept through towns across America, hitting children the ...

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KARACHI, Pakistan (AP) — For the past decade, Sughra Ayaz has traveled door to door in southeastern Pakistan, pleading with parents to allow children to be vaccinated against polio as part of a global ...