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On Monday, President-elect Donald Trump held a wide-ranging news conference, taking questions from reporters for the first time since winning the…
Zimbabwe starts an emergency polio vaccination drive after detecting cases caused by a rare mutation
Zimbabwe began an emergency campaign to inoculate millions of kids against polio after three cases caused by a rare mutation were…
Polio is a highly infectious disease mostly spread through water and typically strikes children under five. There is no treatment.
"We know polio spreads silently, and it’s likely that there are many people infected with polio and shedding the virus…
New York state health officials issued a more urgent call Thursday for unvaccinated children and adults to get inoculated against…
The polio virus was detected in wastewater samples from a suburban county near New York City.
An unvaccinated young adult from New York recently contracted polio, the first U.S. case in nearly a decade, health officials…
NBC News - The National Institute of Health announced it was, at long last, making good with Henrietta Lacks' family...
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) - Health officials are looking into the cases of four people who became paralyzed in northwestern Haiti…