A police officer working on Pakistan’s first polio vaccination drive of the year was shot and killed by unidentified gunmen ...

A Pakistan police officer travelling to guard polio vaccinators was shot dead Monday, police said, on the first day of a ...

Here is what we know about polio as a disease, its vaccines and the likely number of lives saved through inoculation.

The Pakistani Taliban claimed the killing of a police officer as he travelled Monday to guard polio vaccinators on the first day of a nationwide immunisation effort after a year of rising cases. The ...

The Pakistani Taliban claimed the killing of a police officer as he travelled Monday to guard polio vaccinators on the first ...

“Don’t go to hospital,” our doctor said when I reached him. “If it’s polio, the damage has already happened. Nothing can be done. Just come to my office.” If it’s polio? But wai ...

My Aunt Jean, my father’s older sister, was a victim of the infamous Cutter vaccine, an early variant of the polio vaccine presumed to contain an inactivated version of the live virus.

A senior World Health Organization official cautioned Wednesday that the eradication of polio in Afghanistan and Pakistan, the only countries where the paralytic virus persists, is threatened by ...

She is the author of the book The Autumn Ghost: How the Battle Against a Polio Epidemic Revolutionized Modern Medical Care. Last month it was reported that Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s lawyer ...