One million children will go untreated for severe malnutrition, up to 166,000 people will die from malaria and 200,000 more ...

The polio vaccination drive in Gaza is exceeding expectations, the WHO said Tuesday as it warned of the impacts of US funding ...

Daughter of reporter and editor Bill Cunningham on a quest to collect his accounts of iron lung treatment and physical therapy he received while recovering.

Though paralysis is a less common side effect of the illness, post-polio syndrome can follow a patient years after they’ve recovered from the virus. In an old campaign advertisement, McConnell ...

A reader says her 91-year-old friend survived polio as a child, but her friend's twin brother did not. Now, we have an anti-vaccine health secretary.

Hospitals in England have been hit by a storm of norovirus infections as the number of beds taken up by patients with the virus reached a record high last week. An average 1,160 patients a day were in ...

GENEVA: The World Health Organization said Wednesday (Feb 19) that mass polio vaccination would resume in Gaza on Saturday, targeting nearly 600,000 children, after the virus was again detected in ...

The World Health Organization, WHO, on Wednesday said that a mass campaign to vaccinate children against polio in Gaza would resume on Saturday, with over half a million children targeted.

Addis Ababa: The Ethiopian government launched a nationwide polio vaccination campaign on Wednesday, targeting more than 13.8 million children. The Ethiopia Public Health Institute (EPHI ...

More than 200 polio workers and police assigned for their protection have been killed in Pakistan since the 1990s, according to health officials and authorities. Pakistan and neighboring ...

Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. A health worker, right, administers a polio vaccine to a child at a neighborhood in Peshawar, Pakistan ...