India plans to take over polio surveillance from WHO, entrusting the work to the National Centre for Disease Control. The ...

Declining childhood vaccination rates left parts of Texas vulnerable to a measles outbreak that continues to worsen, and could lead to the reemergence of other infectious diseases, Dr. Peter Hotez ...

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A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens documents your change from an old, self-centered miser to a person concerned with ...

The Regional Reference Laboratory for Polio Eradication at the National Institute of Health has confirmed the presence of Wild Poliovirus Type 1 in environmental samples collected from sewerage lines ...

More than a century ago, the US learned what happens when there is no national response to a major health crisis.

In Florida, the number of kindergartners with mandatory vaccinations decreased to 88% in the 2023-24 school year from 94% in ...

According to healthychildren.org, childhood vaccines consistently remain at very high and beneficial levels of safety and efficacy.

Data on the number of cases for these diseases from the pre-vaccine era is hard to come by, and even the case counts are ...

On an August morning in 1949, when I was six, I got out of bed and collapsed on the floor. By evening, I was paralyzed from the neck down and in an iron lung. I spent the next five months in a polio ...

As the measles outbreak in the U.S. spreads, experts fear that other preventable diseases, including polio, rubella, and mumps, could return. Here’s what you can do to stay safe.