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 ...

PESHAWAR, Pakistan — After years of decline, polio is surging again in this populous South Asian nation, dimming hopes that the viral disease — eradicated nearly everywhere else on Earth ...

“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 ...

A concerning development has emerged in Pakistan's fight against polio. Recent sewage samples collected from Mirpurkhas, Thatta, and Naushahro Feroze districts in Sindh have tested positive for ...

Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa Chief Secretary, Nadeem Aslam Chaudhary has emphasized the need for a well-coordinated strategy to control the polio virus in union councils where environmental samples have ...

The Daily Show’s Michael Kosta invited on the “polio virus” on Wednesday to interview one of Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s “supporters” following his first Senate confirmation hearing.

The World Health Organization (WHO) praised Pakistan on Thursday for reducing polio cases by over 99% since 1994, reaffirming its commitment to assist the country in completing the final phase of ...

The polio vaccine is a public health success so profound that few people in the U.S. even think about the disease the vaccine prevents. But before the vaccine was approved in 1955, polio was a widely ...