Throughout the ages, smallpox, now known to be caused by a virus, was a serious, and often deadly, disease that had spread ...

My mom's memories of her paralytic polio are just one reason I worry about progress Robert F. Kennedy Jr. could undo, writes ...

Only by working together to find compromise on parts of the president-elect’s agenda can we make progress for Americans who ...

In media interviews and countless speeches, Dr. Gallo, emeritus director of the Institute of Human Virology in Baltimore, ...

As part of the worldwide effort to stop polio, he was given a limited number of Salk vaccines to give to second graders. My brother was in second grade and so received one of the doses in the Spring ...

Coppola was saved by his father’s unwillingness to accept the diagnosis. Carmine Coppola was a composer who won Oscar scoring ...

While SV40 was present in early polio vaccines, it was removed decades ago, and there is no conclusive proof linking it to cancer in humans. Vaccines today are safe and do not contain SV40.

One of these petitions related to IPOL, which is one of the six polio-containing vaccines currently licensed by the FDA. The petition wouldn’t affect the other five vaccines. No one, least of ...

For example, he has said that after the vaccine was first introduced, it might have caused a wave of cancers “that killed many, many, many, many, many more people than polio ever did.” ...

1:41 Doctors cite concern over polio vaccine politics in U.S. Polio, a highly contagious viral infection that can cause paralysis and death, has been eradicated in Canada for decades thanks to ...

Kennedy Jr. criticized The New York Times and other media outlets for publishing a claim that the Trump ally wants to eradicate approval for the polio vaccine. Attorney Aaron Siri joined Fox News ...