During the summers of the years after World War II, mothers dreaded fever in a child because these were the worst years of ...

What are the benefits of the polio vaccine? The polio vaccine protects against poliomyelitis (polio), a highly infectious ...

Polio survivor and campaigner Ramesh Ferris talks about his endeavours to eradicate polio, specifically within Pakistan and ...

A more affordable, lower-risk polio vaccine is on the horizon, research led by the University of Leeds has found.

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 ...

University of Leeds researchers have taken a major step towards producing a more affordable and lower-risk polio vaccine ...

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

Mounting vaccine complacency is also a danger. With the elimination of vaccine-preventable diseases, so too were the memory ...

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

Recent human trials of a new one-year-long immune-based treatment for post-polio syndrome, which can strike polio survivors years after the initial infection and be very debilitating, have ...

POLIO has emerged as a major challenge in Pakistan. It is not simply a challenge in the health sector, but has also become ...

Federal Minister for Health Syed Mustafa Kamal said on Sunday that polio eradication remained a national priority, adding ...