In the last two years, vaccine-derived polio has been spotted in the United States and Gaza. Now the original wild-type polio ...

The first wave of a massive vaccination campaign against polio is wrapping up in Gaza. The World Health Organization (WHO) says that in less than two weeks, they’ve helped administer more than ...

The Conversation: Given that polio was all but eradicated in this region of the world, how might the 10-month-old baby in Gaza have caught it? Lee Sherry: The sequences of the polioviruses ...

The Taliban recently announced that they are suspending its polio vaccination campaign in Afghanistan. The announcement was ...

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This journey was the consequence of a fateful decision by global health organizations to pare down the oral polio vaccine in 2016. The move, now called “the switch,” was intended to help ...

The first case of polio in Gaza in 25 years was detected in July. The last day of the polio vaccination campaign is wrapping up in Gaza, the World Health Organization (WHO) said Thursday.

United Nations officials on Wednesday hailed limited pauses in the fighting between Israel and Hamas to allow children's polio vaccinations as rare moments of hope in the nearly yearlong war in Gaza.

As cases of poliovirus see significant rise in the country, Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif on Sunday launched a special anti-polio vaccination campaign as the government in a bid to eradicate the ...

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — The Taliban have suspended polio vaccination campaigns in Afghanistan, the U.N. said Monday. It’s a devastating setback for polio eradication, since the ...