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Biden’s recent announcement that the pandemic is ending could slow process further, as parents question the necessity of shots

The very short answers to two questions posed to New York Mayor Eric Adams this week when he announced the end of the city’s private employer vaccine mandate nicely encapsulate the logic and science — or, we should say, lack thereof — behind the policy, put in place by Bill…

Experts warn this winter’s cold season could be particularly severe

The Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) on Wednesday said Brazil, the Dominican Republic, Haiti and Peru are at very high risk for the reintroduction of polio, as dwindling vaccination rates during the coronavirus pandemic has led to historic lows in protection against the illness.

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The COVID pandemic exposed the fault lines in health systems and national routine immunisation programmes around the world.

Given recent headlines, you may be wondering why polio is even an issue in 2022. For more than 60 years, vaccines against the poliovirus have protected virtually everyone in the United States from the disease. Due to an enormously successful polio vaccination campaign beginning in the 1950s when the first…

PHILADELPHIA — Her gloved fingers working quickly yet carefully, Garima Dwivedi filled row after row of little wells on a plastic laboratory plate, pushing a button to squirt drops of clear fluid she had extracted from the blood of mice.