A lawyer working with Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has asked the F.D.A. to withdraw approval of the current shot because it hasn’t been tested against a placebo. Scientists say such a test would be unethical ...

When smallpox was declared eradicated in 1980, there were hopes that poliovirus might soon be next. As a result of an eradication campaign that began in 1988, two of the virus’s three subtypes have ...

A Jan. 23 Instagram video (direct link, archive link) shows a woman talking about polio and claiming the disease has been renamed. As proof of this, she points to increased cases of other diseases in ...

Now is the time to pull through on efforts to rid the world of polio once and for all — or continue managing it through costly outbreak responses, UNICEF argues in a new call to action. Support UNICEF ...

Polio is on the brink of eradication. Yet outbreaks keep happening, often when primary health services are disrupted or inaccessible, causing children to miss out on routine immunizations. Countries ...

Michael Toole receives funding from the National Health and Medical Research council. Until recently, polio had only been detected in a handful of countries, thanks to global eradication efforts. But ...

April 12, 1955, was a national holiday in the U.S. Almost all TVs and radios were tuned in to an announcement all Americans had anxiously awaited. At long last, a vaccine for polio had arrived. The ...