At a press conference at Mar-a-Lago Monday, President-elect Donald Trump addressed questions about vaccine policy under his administration, telling reporters Americans would still have access to ...

The new vaccines, then, will be less expensive to produce than IPVs, helping to improve fair and equal access to vaccination – ensuring that once polio is eradicated, it will stay eradicated.

Then, in 1955, the polio vaccine was announced and approved. From 1956 to 1970, there were about 41,200 infections and about 2,000 deaths. From 1971 to 2000, 287 cases and 102 deaths.

Shortly after the federal government approved the Salk polio vaccine in 1955, I joined the tidal wave of youngsters vaccinated against polio. Not surprisingly perhaps, my parents expressed more ...

Pakistan’s first nationwide polio campaign of 2025 launched the first week of February, aiming to vaccinate over 45.4 million children under the age of 5 in 159 of the country's 166 districts. A ...

There's one confirmed case. And likely hundreds more. As experts try to ID the source of the virus in Gaza, a huge vaccine effort has wrapped up stage 1 and gears up for the critical stage 2.

Senate Republican leader and polio survivor Mitch McConnell on Friday condemned “dangerous” efforts to abolish the polio ...

Another goal will be to reach children who were unable to receive a first dose of the polio vaccine last month. The WHO had originally aimed to vaccinate about 640,000 children in Gaza.

In 1954 — the year before the polio vaccine became widely available — the U.S. saw more than 18,000 reported cases of paralytic polio and more than 1,000 deaths due to the virus, ...

RFK Jr.’s personal attorney has petitioned the FDA to revoke its approval of the hepatitis B and polio vaccines, and block the distribution of 13 others.

Israeli leaders agree to rare pause in fighting in Gaza amid polio crisis 02:18. A large-scale campaign to vaccinate hundreds of thousands of children against polio in the Gaza Strip launched ...

Senate Republican leader and polio survivor Mitch McConnell on Friday condemned “dangerous” efforts to abolish the polio vaccine following news that Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s lawyer’s tried ...