Children given inactivated polio vaccine (IPV) at least 6 months after the oral poliovirus vaccine (OPV) series develop better immunity, according to a report published online July 11 in the Lancet.

Poliomyelitis remains a critical concern within the field of pediatric infectious diseases, particularly as efforts to ...

In the battle to eradicate polio in areas where it remains a threat, 1 plus 1 could equal 0. After decades of controversy over which polio vaccine to use, either Albert Sabin's live-attenuated oral ...

A more affordable and safer polio vaccine could soon be available, according to a study led by the University of Leeds.

Jonathan Altamirano, Sean Leary, Christopher van Hoorebeke, Clea Sarnquist, Rasika Behl, Lourdes García-García, Leticia Ferreyra-Reyes, ChunHong Huang, Marvin Sommer, Yvonne Maldonado Clinical ...

There’s a reason you rarely hear about people catching polio—let alone dying from the highly infectious disease—particularly in the U.S. And if you’re under the age of 70, you’ve likely never had to ...

At a Sept. 11 meeting of the Royal Society of London, convened to discuss the origin of HIV/AIDS, researchers aired scientific data showing that the hypothesis that HIV/AIDS originated from an ...

The final nail is in the coffin for the now largely refuted theory that the human immunodeficiency virus type 1 (HIV-1) crossed into humans as a result of contamination of oral polio vaccine (OPV), ...

ISLAMABAD, Dec. 1 (Xinhua) -- Pakistan has vaccinated more than 33 million children in its nationwide measles-rubella (MR) and oral polio vaccine (OPV) campaign, achieving over 95 percent MR coverage, ...