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More bumps in the road to wiping out polio - report
Reuters via Yahoo News· 7 months agoThe global effort to end polio is likely to miss two key targets this year on the path towards defeating the virus, according to an independent strategic...
The Differences Between the Two Polio Vaccines—and the New One on the Horizon
Time via Yahoo News· 1 year agoA health worker gives a dose of the polio vaccine to a child during a vaccination campaign against...
The 1st US polio case in 9 years left a man paralyzed. It could have been avoided with vaccination,...
Business Insider via Yahoo News· 2 years agoA shot in the UK that combines vaccines against diphtheria, tetanus, hepatitis B, whooping cough,...
Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation pledge $1.2 billion to eradicate polio
Reuters via Yahoo News· 2 years ago(This Oct. 16 story has been refiled to clarify that polio remains endemic only in two countries,...
Vaccine-derived poliovirus detected in Burundi, Congo
Reuters via Yahoo News· 1 year agoJOHANNESBURG/LONDON (Reuters) -Health officials in Burundi and the Democratic Republic of Congo...
Bill Gates, whose foundation funds polio vaccines, warns that the disease’s reemergence in New York...
Fortune via Yahoo Finance· 2 years agoA once-eradicated disease has reemerged in New York, and it's spooking health officials and...
Wiping out polio 'not guaranteed', support needed, Bill Gates says
Reuters via Yahoo News· 2 days agoSuccess in the fight to wipe out polio is not guaranteed, according to tech billionaire turned...
Child left paralysed as Pakistan records its first polio case of the year
The Telegraph via Yahoo News· 1 month agoA police officer stands guard as a health worker administers a polio vaccine to a child at a...
Polio's Arrival in the U.S. Is Another Urgent Reminder That Kids Need to Get Vaccinated
Time via Yahoo News· 2 years agoCredit - Getty Images The global pandemic isn’t the only current example of what happens when...
The Polio Threat Continues to Grow—But a New Vaccine Could Make a Difference
Time via Yahoo News· 2 years agoA health worker administers polio vaccine drops to a child at a school during a door-to-door polio...