Polio, which is yearly taking a higher toll ... where he was “weaned” from the lung and introduced to a rocking bed. This device, with an adjustable top like a hospital bed, has a motor ...

Both are species of cowardice.” The right cared nothing for either Jennifer or Melissa, or for their mothers. Their pain only ...

The Republican senator’s childhood bout with the disease has informed his ardent support for vaccines amid increasing ...

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.

SINGAPORE – On Feb 7, a five-month-old Indonesian girl who arrived in Singapore for emergency medical treatment was confirmed to be a case of vaccine-associated polio. According to the Ministry ...

While the five countries reporting the virus maintain high immunization coverage, with three doses of the inactivated poliovirus vaccine (IPV), subnational coverage of the third dose of the polio ...

Here is what we know about polio as a disease, its vaccines and the likely number of lives saved through inoculation. In its early stages, poliomyelitis — known as polio — causes fatigue ...

Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif on Sunday launched the first nationwide anti-polio campaign for the year 2025, the Prime Minister’s House (PMO) reported. The campaign will commerce on February 3 ...

Wild poliovirus was almost eradicated globally two years ago, but poor conditions are causing cases to rise in Afghanistan and spill into Pakistan. https://p.dw.com/p ...

By 2000, through mass vaccination campaigns of oral polio vaccines, the world had almost eradicated poiliovirus barring a few regions. However, the global fight against polio has encountered a ...

That includes vaccines for measles, chickenpox and polio. "I started doing research, and I saw that a lot of doctors were just having a really hard time answering the questions that I had," Vargas ...

As a polio survivor, I believe that lethal diseases ... eating meals literally tossed onto her bed by a panicked staff while my sister tried to say goodbye using handwritten notes stuck to her ...