The 12 vaccines available combat diphtheria, tetanus, pertussis, polio, measles, mumps, rubella, haemophilus influenza type B, hepatitis B, chickenpox, pneumococcus and influenza.

Before vaccines and public health triumphs, polio was the thing that kept parents up at night. During its peak from 1948 to 1955, the disease swept through towns across America, hitting children ...

If you have not been vaccinated against polio, then you should get vaccinated, even if you are not traveling to New York City! Note that it would be unusual not to have received the polio vaccine ...

The IVI-SK Bioscience Park MahnHoon Award recognises global pioneers in vaccine science. In 2025, it went jointly to Bandyopadhyay, presently the deputy director of the polio programme at the Gates ...

In April 1954, 16,000 Indiana second grade students were given the new polio vaccine developed by Dr. Jonas Salk and manufactured by Eli Lilly & Co. By the late 1950s, the threat of the disease ...

According to the Emergency Operation Centre (EOC), 37,711 parents rejected polio vaccination during the May 2025 campaign. This marks a slight increase from April, when 37,360 parents declined the ...

Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. dismissed 17 members of a CDC vaccine advisory committee. Kennedy Jr. cited restoring public trust as the reason for the dismissals, despite his history of ...

How do vaccines work? There are currently vaccines to prevent at least twenty-five threatening diseases worldwide, according to the World Health Organization (WHO), the UN health agency.

Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. ousted all 17 members of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s vaccine advisory panel, claiming it “has been plagued with ...

A resurfaced video of RFK Jr. from 2023 shows him falsely linking the polio vaccine to other diseases. Ari Melber fact checks the heath secretary's claims.