Polio is a highly contagious virus that can cause paralysis and even death. Thanks to the effectiveness of the polio vaccine, the virus has been eliminated in the United States. However, it's possible ...

Around 90 percent of children under 10 in the Gaza Strip have received a dose of the polio vaccine following the first round of an emergency vaccination campaign conducted by UNICEF and partners in ...

Sindh has launched a sub-national anti-polio campaign across 20 districts targeting more than 5.8 million children under five ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. I am one of only two members of Congress who are polio survivors. In 1954, my father was a pediatrician in Memphis, Tennessee. As ...

The effort to eradicate polio began in 1988 with a target of making the world free of the disease by the start of the new millennium. But the virus has proved to be a much more di ...

Health officials hope to vaccinate 640,000 Palestinian children under 10 years of age during a brief humanitarian pause. A major effort is underway in Gaza as health officials work to protect children ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A child gets vaccinated against polio virus in Deir El Balah Health Center. Hundreds of thousands of children are to be vaccinated ...

UNICEF is working with partners to administer polio vaccines in the Gaza Strip, protecting children from the lifelong crippling disease. Limited humanitarian pauses are enabling the campaign’s success ...

Overland was a reporter and public health writer in Asia for more than a decade. She is currently an editor at NPR. My son was 5 years old when he climbed out of bed and landed on the floor. He was ...

Polio is once again spreading in Pakistan, where officials say more than 1 million children missed their vaccination doses last month, underscoring the challenges they face in eradicating one of the ...