On Aug. 27, the Rutland Daily Herald reported that doctors believed an epidemic of cerebral meningitis, spinal meningitis and cerebro-spinal meningitis had hit the city and surrounding area. Over the ...

It’s her family that won’t affirm her having polio.

An avian flu outbreak that pushed egg prices higher is finally winding down. Polio reemerged in New York. And then there’s SARS-CoV-2, which is still infecting about 93,000 people a day in the U.S.

Though it is well established that IPV-driven schedules are highly effective at minimising paralytic polio risks across the lifespan, the limited capacity of IPV schedules delivered in childhood to ...

In recent weeks, Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has begun to dismantle decades of vaccine safety ...

Ulna and Radius Fractures: What You Need to Know The forearm is made up of two bones, the ulna and the radius. A forearm fracture can occur in one or both of the forearm bones. Some of the causes ...

Since the End Polio project started in 1988 the number of cases worldwide has dropped by 99.9 per cent and the disease is now only endemic in two countries. For further information have a look at ...

Balarabe Musa, a 45-year-old polio survivor and lecturer, joined the crusade of promoting routine immunisation across communities in Misau. He attributed non-compliance with vaccines to ignorance ...

According to the Regional Reference Laboratory for Polio Eradication at the National Institute of Health (NIH), the victim was a 33-month-old male child from union council Shamsikhel in Bannu.

Bandyopadhyay’s award is, in many ways, a tribute to teamwork — a theme he himself reiterates. Bandyopadhyay, 46, met Van Damme serendipitously in Brussels in 2014. At the time, Bandyopadhyay was ...