polio

What Must Be Done to Create a World Without Polio

By Barry Rassin, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus

Meet the Doctor Who Runs India's Last Polio Ward

By Nate Hopper

Is 2018 the Year for Polio’s Extinction?

By Jeffrey Kluger

Here's Some Promising News on World Polio Day

By Jeff Kluger / Atlanta
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The Tale of the Pakistani Taliban Father Whose Baby Had Polio

Even though the Quetta attack showed the Taliban is still bent on disrupting Pakistan's attempts to eradicate polio, a one-on-one encounter proves instructive

By Jeffrey Kluger

How the World Is Improving Children's Health (And Where We're Falling Short)

A global report card on our successes and shortcomings on Universal Children's Day

By Jeffrey Kluger

Seattle Flunks Vaccine Science

In the same week Nigeria frees itself from polio, vaccine rates continue to fall in the Pacific northwest

By Jeffrey Kluger

This Is How Nigeria Beat Polio

A quarter-century campaign brings the world tantalizingly close to eradicating a disease

By Jeffrey Kluger

How the Polio Vaccine Trials Relieved a Worried Nation

Between 1954 and 1955, the polio vaccine transitioned from a trial of 1.8 million to a regular feature of life for households across America

By Eliza Berman

Gunmen Kill Lawyer of Doctor Who Helped Find bin Laden

“We killed him because he was defending Shakil, who is our enemy”

By Rishi Iyengar

My Polio, My Mother's Choice

Today's parents, thanks to vaccines, have never had to learn—need never learn—about pain and grief and loss of control

By Zócalo Public Square

Nigerian Elections Threaten Campaign to Make Africa Polio-Free

Nigeria is is the last country in Africa which is still polio-endemic but it hasn't had a case in six months

By Aryn Baker

Meet the Latest Driver of the Anti-Vaccine Clown Car

A doctor who should know better peddles dangerous rubbish

By Jeffrey Kluger

What the Gates Foundation Has Achieved, 15 Years On

Much has been done over the foundation's first decade and a half — with more still to do

By Jeffrey Kluger

Militants Gun Down Pakistan Health Workers as Polio Crisis Intensifies

There have been 260 new cases of polio diagnosed in the South Asian nation this year

By David Stout

Africa Nears Polio Eradication, CDC Says

Health officials credit successful vaccination efforts in Nigeria

By Dan Kedmey

Google Doodle Celebrates Jonas Salk, Scientist Behind Polio Vaccine

Dr. Jonas Salk made polio nearly extinct in just two years

By Laura Stampler

The Price of Staying Alive For the Next 3 Hours

A new study suggests a little spending now can buy you a lot of time later

By Jeffrey Kluger

What It Will Take to End Polio

Franklin Roosevelt never knew the Pakistani babies battling polio today, but he knew their pain. The world is fighting to end that suffering forever

By Jeffrey Kluger

FDR's Polio: The Steel in His Soul

Disease can break a lot of people. As a new film by Ken Burns and an exclusive video clip show, it helped make Franklin Roosevelt

By Jeffrey Kluger
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