Elon Musk defended the efficacy of vaccines after podcaster pal Joe Rogan interviewed an anti-vax conspiracy theorist on his ...

Prime Minister's Focal Person on Polio Eradication, Ms Ayesha Raza Farooq on Wednesday called for strengthening the polio ...

Pakistan is one of only two countries where polio remains endemic and it is aiming to eradicate it by 2027, but with cases ...

Dr Jonas Salk announced that he had successfully developed a cure for polio. The year before, there were tens of thousands of ...

On March 26, 1953, Jonas Salk announced he had successfully tested a new vaccine. Unfortunately, a defective batch was sent ...

Pakistan's Regional Reference Laboratory for Polio Eradication has detected Wild Poliovirus Type 1 in sewage samples from 18 ...

The measles outbreak is surging in West Texas, especially in under-vaccinated communities, but it’s not just coverage with the measles vaccine that is lagging behind. The use of other key vaccines in ...

India plans to take over polio surveillance from WHO, entrusting the work to the National Centre for Disease Control. The ...

ISLAMABAD: The Regional Reference Laboratory for Polio Eradication at Pakistan’s National Institute of Health has confirmed ...

There is no cure for poliomyelitis, commonly known as polio. The highly infectious viral disease invades the nervous system and largely affects children under the age of five. Serious cases result ...

Polio ravaged human bodies for hundreds of years, but the misery began to wane 70 years ago when two polio vaccines developed in the U.S. halted the virus’ spread.

Artscape CEO Marlene le Roux called for post-polio to be recognised as a chronic disease for medical aids to pay for ...