The new vaccines, then, will be less expensive to produce than IPVs, helping to improve fair and equal access to vaccination – ensuring that once polio is eradicated, it will stay eradicated.

Post-polio syndrome (PPS) affects between 25% and 40% of polio survivors years after the initial infection. It’s characterized by new weakening in muscles previously affected by polio, as well ...

Polio vaccines have helped eradicate the wild form of the disease in many regions of the world, including the Americas, Europe, Southeast Asia and Africa, according to WHO. The former ...

Health workers vaccinate a 2-year-old child during a polio vaccination campaign in January 2015 in a rural area of Tehsil Fateh Jang, Punjab in Pakistan. Credit: Wikimedia Commons/ CDC Global ...

Post-Polio Health International, a St. Louis-based nonprofit that promotes the “well-being and independence of polio survivors,” has sent a letter opposing Mr. Kennedy to all 100 senators.

L ast month it was reported that Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s lawyer, Aaron Siri, had petitioned the U.S. Food and Drug Administration to revoke approval of the polio vaccine. Lobbying to stop ...

I contracted polio when I was 15 or 18 months old and lost some power on my right lower limb,” said K.M. Venkat Narayan, a professor of global health at Emory University.

Robert F. Kennedy previously voiced his opposition to the polio vaccine, an immunization which eradicated the polio virus in the U.S. Find out more.

Regarding the safety of the polio vaccine, the Louisiana Department of Health assures that the long-standing vaccine safety system in the U.S. ensures that vaccines are as safe as possible ...

Polio was “the most feared disease in the world” throughout the late 19th and early 20th centuries, WHO says. It killed or paralyzed more than half a million people every year by the mid-20th ...

But polio is one of the world's most infectious diseases and is still spreading in a small number of countries. The WHO and its partners want to eradicate polio in the next few years.