As U.S. childhood vaccination rates sway on a “knife’s edge,” new 25-year projections reveal how slight changes in national ...

Polio has broken out before in Papua New Guinea, with the most recent incident happening in June of 2018, after a reported 20 ...

The World Health Ogranization says wild poliovirus type 2 was eradicated in 1999, but the deadly disease has been detected ...

Around the world, 20% of children are not fully immunized, leading to 1.5 million child deaths each year from diseases that ...

The World Health Organization says the PNG outbreak is linked to strains circulating in Indonesia, posing a serious risk to other countries in the region.

The WHO recommends vaccination against 12 deadly diseases in childhood, but how long does protection last, and how do they ...