Polio is a highly contagious virus that can cause paralysis and even death. Thanks to the effectiveness of the polio vaccine, the virus has been eliminated in the United States. However, it's possible ...

The CDC’s travel advisory includes the United Kingdom, Germany, Pakistan and 27 other countries. How concerned should you be?

As a child, Catharine Coleborne’s mother spent a year in bed with polio. Stories like hers reveal why we can’t afford to go backwards on vaccination.

The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has raised its polio travel advisory to a Level 2 for 32 countries where the disease is spreading.

BLANTYRE, Malawi (AP) — 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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Stock photo from Getty Images of a sick child. Parents are increasingly putting their children in danger in Ohio schools.

Rawalpindi's deputy commissioner directs health authority to immunise over 1 million children under five in anti-polio campaign running April 13-16.

The Albanese government will provide an additional over K6million (AUD $2 million) to support Papua New Guinea’s efforts to ...

This year, Dr. Kirk Milhoan, a pediatric cardiologist and the Trump administration’s choice to lead the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s vaccine advisory committee, argued on a podcast ...