WHO prequalification of an additional novel oral polio vaccine boosts global outbreak response, accelerating polio eradication efforts.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. When John F. Kennedy delivered his 1961 inaugural address, fewer than half of Americans had even been born. Still, his call to ...

The southern African nation of Malawi has launched a new polio vaccination campaign this week in another reminder that the ...

If anyone should have lobbied against the use of vaccines in this country, it was my family. My Aunt Jean, my father’s older sister, was a victim of the infamous Cutter vaccine, an early variant of ...

The inactivated polio vaccine used in the United States is given by injection and doesn’t carry that risk, making it even safer for the people who get it. But the injected vaccine doesn’t create ...

The search for vaccines to fight poliomyelitis started in the 1920s, but it wasn't until the 1950s that the search bore fruit with the introduction of two vaccines. The first was the Salk inactivated ...

The World Health Organization has just prequalified an additional novel oral polio vaccine type 2 (nOPV2),a breakthrough in ...

One of RFK Jr.’s vaccine advisers recently floated the idea of stopping vaccination against the virus. It would be catastrophic. Illustration by Akshita Chandra / The Atlantic. Sources: Smith ...

LONDON -- Four African countries have reported new cases of polio linked to the oral vaccine, as global health numbers show there are now more children being paralyzed by viruses originating in ...

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(CNN) — President-elect Donald Trump has praised the polio vaccine as the “greatest thing,” but a lawyer affiliated with Trump’s pick to lead the country’s top health agency has petitioned the US Food ...