I remember the day I received the vaccine. My mother took me to the local high school, where we joined a long waiting line. It was a warm day, and we stood outside. My mother was wearing a summer dress, and the skirt blew against her legs. I remember how happy she was.

There are an estimated 300,000 polio survivors in the United States. For some, the nomination of Robert F. Kennedy Jr. as health secretary is reviving their painful memories.

My Aunt Jean, my father’s older sister, was a victim of the infamous Cutter vaccine, an early variant of the polio vaccine presumed to contain an inactivated version of the live virus.

In its original form, the virus survives in just two countries. But a type linked to an oral vaccine used in other nations has already turned up in the West.

Then there’s this: Aaron Siri, Kennedy’s lawyer and the person helping him pick top federal health officials, according to The New York Times, has petitioned the US Food and Drug Administration to revoke approval of the polio vaccine used in this country as well as those for 13 other infectious diseases.

almost a decade before Jonas Salk developed the first polio vaccine. Polio is a disease caused by the poliovirus. The ancient virus has three types: types 1, 2, and 3. Wild poliovirus types 2 and ...

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The US is the biggest donor to the WHO, and the loss of this income is likely to have a significant impact on the organization, which develops international health guidelines, investigates disease outbreaks, and acts as an information-sharing hub for member states.

“My attitude about the nominations is that that’s why God made confirmation hearings,” GOP Sen. John Kennedy of Louisiana said at the beginning of December. And so, for the moment, it seems like the Senate will take up the various cabinet nominees.

1. They came in prepared this time, with outrageous and lawless executive orders written and ready to roll out. 2. When Trump makes an impromptu decision (“Fuck it: Release ’em all”), it’s based on his worst and most authoritarian instincts. 3. Obviously, this administration will act totally without regard to precedent or law.

Diseases that were once nearly wiped out, such as measles and polio, are making a comeback nationwide. Experts say much of this is fueled by a decline in vaccination rates and a growing divide over vaccine safety.

Wild poliovirus was almost eradicated globally two years ago, but poor conditions are causing cases to rise in Afghanistan and spill into Pakistan.Before the development of the first poliovirus vaccine in 1955,