Dr. Kirk Milhoan speaks during an Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP) meeting at the U.S. Centers for Disease ...

The new chairman of the CDC's Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices, Kirk Milhoan, M.D., Ph.D., recently took to the ...

While polio may seem like a disease of the past, its eradication is still unfinished business—and one of the most ambitious global health undertakings in history. In honor of World Polio Day on ...

QUETTA: Prime Minister’s Focal Person for Polio Eradication, Senator Ayesha Raza, has said that although the poliovirus still ...

KARACHI, Pakistan (AP) — 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 ...

Once polio is eradicated, IPV will be the only vaccine available for routine use in that country, according to a Pakistani government website. In the U.S., where polio has been eradicated but is ...

In October 2021, the Smithsonian magazine published a sobering article on diphtheria — a disease that terrorized communities until the advent of vaccines. The author reminded us: “Despite all the ...

KARACHI, Pakistan (AP) — For nearly four decades, the World Health Organization and partners have been trying to rid the world of polio, a paralytic disease that has existed since prehistoric times.

Polio is a dreadful disease and when it knocks, its effect is immediate and never leaves an individual. Vaccination is the only defence against the viral disease. But despite the vaccine saving lives, ...

During the meeting, the Finance Minister expressed appreciation for the Gates Foundation's longstanding support to Pakistan, ...

When 23-year-old Sanila Marjan joined the polio communication workforce as a community mobiliser, she assumed that her role ...

The story of polio’s eradication highlights how post-War World II scientific breakthroughs allowed U.S. industry to produce vaccines at scale. It also shows how, when those processes went horribly ...