COVID-19 Vaccination: What We Can Learn From the Great Polio Vaccine Heist of 1959
We find ourselves at a precarious time in global health. Many people are anxiously awaiting their turn to receive a ...
We find ourselves at a precarious time in global health. Many people are anxiously awaiting their turn to receive a ...
A new vaccine development platform has proven effective in protecting against deadly, hard-to-treat infections caused by multi-drug resistant bacteria, thanks ...
Throughout much of the last century, a lethal and terrifying virus besieged America. Then, as now, the fear of contagion ...
Addressing concerns about the manufacture and stockpiling of polio vaccines containing live virus, British researchers have generated a new vaccine ...
This week marks one year since the last wild polio case was detected on the entire African continent, according to ...
The Georgia Institute of Technology and Micron Biomedical have been awarded $2.5 million in grants from the Bill & Melinda ...
Beyond deaths, injuries, and displacements, the ongoing Syrian war is causing growing infectious disease epidemics. Sima Sharara, from the University ...
New evidence suggests that giving the Salk inactivated poliovirus vaccine (IPV) to individuals who had already been given the Sabin ...
A coalition campaign involving imams, Islamic school teachers, traditional rulers, doctors, journalists, and polio survivors is gradually turning the tide ...
Ticking viral bombs, left in boxes | Pakistanis use fake polio vaccination cards to travel overseas | Experts call for ...
Re-introducing a type of polio vaccine that fell out of favor in the 1960s could hasten eradication of the disease, ...
On 18 June 2014, Brazil reported to the World Health Organization (WHO) that wild poliovirus type 1 (WPV1) had been ...
The World Health Organization (WHO) took unprecedented action this week by declaring the potential for polio resurgence a global public ...
Rotavirus. Credit: CDC The University of Georgia recently announced that it has received Phase II funding through Grand Challenges Explorations, ...
The largest-ever consolidated immunization response in the Middle East is under way to stop a polio outbreak, aiming to vaccinate ...
An outbreak of wild poliovirus type 1 (WPV1) in the Horn of Africa has prompted urgent vaccination campaigns in the ...
A World Health Organization (WHO) worker assisting the anti-polio campaign in Pakistan was shot and killed this week. The tragedy ...
How has the CIA’s decision to send a vaccination team into the Bin Laden compound to gather information and DNA ...
The World Health Organization (WHO) is expected to this week to declare polio a global health emergency. Efforts to eradicate the disease ...