New concerns about EV-D68, a seasonal virus that can -- in rare cases -- cause polio-like symptoms in children. Dr. Kristin Moffitt, an infectious disease specialist at Boston Children's Hospital, ...

After decades of American children routinely receiving polio vaccines, the virus that had doomed many to paralysis was nearly eliminated in the United States. But vaccine avoidance today may allow the ...

In a classroom in southern Malawi, children sit in rows on the floor as a health worker moves among them administering an ...

Waldorf schools tend to attract parents who don’t want their kids to eat junk food or play Fortnite; they also draw a fair number who skip vaccines. During the pandemic, I began to hear considerable ...

Survivors say US healthcare system not ready for new cases – ‘the only thing to fix polio is the polio vaccine’ ...

There are now nine confirmed cases of acute flaccid myelitis (AFM) in Washington state. Nationally, the number of cases has jumped from a few dozen to over 100. RELATED: Bremerton mother traveling to ...

For the past decade, Sughra Ayaz has traveled door to door in southeastern Pakistan, pleading with parents to allow children to be vaccinated against polio as part of a global campaign to wipe out the ...

In a classroom in southern Malawi, children sit in rows on the floor as a health worker moves among them administering an oral vaccine that protects against polio. The new vaccination campaign that ...

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 to do just ...