Around 90 percent of children under 10 in the Gaza Strip have received a dose of the polio vaccine following the first round of an emergency vaccination campaign conducted by UNICEF and partners in ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. I am one of only two members of Congress who are polio survivors. In 1954, my father was a pediatrician in Memphis, Tennessee. As ...

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 ...

UNICEF is working with partners to administer polio vaccines in the Gaza Strip, protecting children from the lifelong crippling disease. Limited humanitarian pauses are enabling the campaign’s success ...

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Health officials hope to vaccinate 640,000 Palestinian children under 10 years of age during a brief humanitarian pause. A major effort is underway in Gaza as health officials work to protect children ...

After six sewage samples taken in Gaza in late June tested positive for poliovirus, World Health Organization Director-General Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus warned that it was “just a matter of time” ...

Polio is once again spreading in Pakistan, where officials say more than 1 million children missed their vaccination doses last month, underscoring the challenges they face in eradicating one of the ...

America’s scientific enterprise, once the envy of the world, is in crisis. Sweeping cuts to federal research threaten to ground what has been, for over 80 years, the most productive and innovative ...

Palestinian children in Gaza will have access to polio vaccines this weekend as the UN rushes to reach families displaced and without access to healthcare following the detection of the virus in ...

Health workers are gearing up to administer a second dose of the polio vaccine to some 590,000 children in Gaza starting Monday. The first round of the large-scale vaccination campaign took place last ...