World & Nation
Afghanistan is one of two countries in which the spread of the potentially fatal, paralyzing disease has never been stopped. No reason was given for the suspension.
Sept. 16, 2024
A rush campaign to vaccinate nearly 650,000 children in wartime Gaza is nearing completion despite many obstacles.
Sept. 10, 2024
Described as ‘humanitarian pauses’ that will last three days in different areas of the war-ravaged territory, the vaccinations will start Sunday.
Aug. 29, 2024
A push to inoculate Gaza children against polio begins, as Palestinians in the Hamas-governed enclave and occupied West Bank reel from Israeli attacks.
Aug. 31, 2024
The threat of polio is rising fast in Gaza, prompting aid groups to call for an urgent pause in the war so they can ramp up vaccinations.
Aug. 18, 2024
Business
Trump and Robert F. Kennedy issued attacks on child vaccinations, including for polio, last week. They want to return us to the 1950s, when preventable diseases struck millions of Americans.
March 5, 2024
California
Enterovirus D68, which in rare cases can cause polio-like paralysis in children, is on the rise in California and across the nation, analyses show.
Sept. 24, 2024
The regular rumbling in Southern California is a reminder that the next destructive quake is not a matter of if but a matter of time.
Sept. 25, 2024
A Turkish American activist who was killed by Israeli fire in the West Bank has been laid to rest in her hometown in Turkey as thousands line the streets.
Sept. 14, 2024
Israeli air raids in the Gaza Strip have killed more than a dozen people as health workers are in the second phase of an urgent polio vaccination campaign.
Sept. 7, 2024