Vaccine Nation is a warning about the acceleration of the anti-vaccination movement during the pandemic and worrying declines ...

While the Salk vaccine mostly eliminated polio in Virginia, a surprise outbreak led to a new push for immunization in ...

UNICEF has said vaccines have saved 154 million lives globally, six lives every minute for 50 years The United Nations ...

In a nutshell At current vaccination rates, measles could become endemic in the US again within 21 years, with researchers ...

Childhood vaccination rates have been falling in the United States, especially since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic.

Cases have been rising in Afghanistan and Pakistan — and global health specialists are worried that this year's U.S. foreign ...

Douglas McIntyre, Editor-in-Chief at Climate Crisis 24/7, draws a powerful comparison between the fight to eradicate polio and the ongoing climate crisis. He highlights how decades of global ...

A look back at local, national and world events through Deseret News archives. On April 12, 1955, the polio vaccine developed by Dr. Jonas Salk was declared safe and effective following nearly a year ...

Aside from recent outbreaks of polio in war-torn regions of the world, the deadly virus is close to being eradicated, thanks to vaccines. All vaccines work by training our immune systems to recognise ...

Blakeslee, the agency’s science writer, outlined how researchers at Johns Hopkins and Yale universities discovered that polio “strikes first in our blood instead of our nerves” and that “there is a ...

Salk believed a killed-virus vaccine was the best approach to combat polio. Most other virologists disagreed with him. They favored a weakened live-virus vaccine that was predicted to be more ...

Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. this week made his strongest endorsement yet of the measles vaccine amid an ongoing outbreak that has killed three and infected more than ...