The Latest Breaking News from Polio

With the UK at the start of what scientists are calling the 'pandemic era', there are warnings that the next viral threat could be much worse than anything we have experienced so far

The respected chair of global public health at the University of Edinburgh says that people should not fear Covid style lockdowns to tackle monkeypox and polio cases.

Pakistani police say gunmen on motorcycles opened fire on policemen escorting a team of polio workers in a former stronghold of the Pakistani Taliban near Afghanistan, killing two policemen and a polio worker

Just 50.4% of year 9s took the vaccination

Until an infectious disease is eradicated everywhere in the world, we are all vulnerable, says Devi Sridhar of the University of Edinburgh

The TV chef contracted the disease when she was a teenager

‘There has been a general downward trend in coverage in most childhood vaccines over the past 5-10 years,’ say scientific advisers to the government

Two and a half years since the first outbreak of Covid-19, experts are warning more disastrous pandemics are likely on the way as we live in a "perfect storm for emerging infectious diseases"

THE UK inflation rate has surged to a level not seen since 1982, new figures revealed last week.

The Saudi Ministry of Health has provided medical services to 216,981 pilgrims who entered the Kingdom via land, air, and seaports, from the beginning of the pilgrims' arrival until Monday, the Saudi Press Agency reported Saturday. According to the ministry, a total of 10,101 pilgrims received preventive treatment for meningitis,…

UK had been declared polio-free since 2003