Polio
The Cutter Incident: How America's First Polio Vaccine Led to the Growing Vaccine Crisis
Saving Vaccines: Why Legal Protection for Drug Companies Will Ultimately Protect Us All - Most scientists agree that a deadly pandemic is coming, but lawsuit-wary pharmaceutical companies are afraid to make vaccines. Infectious disease expert Dr. Paul Offit says expanding an existing "vaccine court" may be the answer.
Indonesia Faces Polio Challenge
Jakarta was slow to tackle a contagious outbreak, but a reinvigorated immunisation campaign is now under way, writes John Aglionby.
Scourge of polio returns to Africa
Medics face £50m vaccine challenge. An international team of doctors is set to launch a desperate, last-ditch bid to save Africa from polio, a scourge once believed to have been defeated but which has recently returned to haunt the continent.
Polio Threat Adds to Suffering
Polio, which can paralyse small children, has become the latest threat to refugees already struggling with famine and disease in the camps of Darfur. Sudan is one of 12 countries that had been polio-free for at least two years but are now again seeing cases of paralysis as a direct result...
Nigerian State Ready to Resume Polio Jabs
The Nigerian state of Kano, the centre of a polio outbreak in Africa, has pledged to resume vaccinations against the disease after accepting that immunisation was not a western plot to harm Muslims. The authorities told the World Health Organisation that an immunisation campaign would...
Polio Outbreak Threatens Africa
The largest epidemic of polio in recent years has broken out in Nigeria and is spreading across central and western Africa, threatening 74 million children with the paralysing disease and jeopardising hopes of eradicating it from the world by the end of the year. In the state of Kano in...
Nigerian State to Lift Ban on Polio Vaccine
The northern Nigerian state of Kano is preparing to reverse its boycott of polio inoculations, which caused a resurgence of the crippling disease and threatened an international campaign to eradicate it. Officials in Kano said they had received a "safe" batch of polio vaccines which had...
Polio Strikes in Botswana As Virus Races Across Africa
An outbreak of polio in Botswana has dealt a fresh blow to the global campaign to eradicate the disease and confirmed fears that it has vaulted across Africa since some states in Nigeria suspended vaccinations. A seven-year-old boy in the north-western district of Ngami was this week...
Polio Jabs a Us Plot, Claim Nigerian Muslims
A campaign to wipe out polio in Africa is being jeopardised by suspicions among Muslim leaders in Nigeria that the vaccination programme is an American plot to make Muslims infertile. A boycott of the oral polio vaccine spread to two more Muslim-dominated states in northern Nigeria...
Immunisation Drive Could Wipe Out Polio By End of 2004
Polio could be eradicated by the end of 2004 in one final last ambitious push to immunise 250 million children several times each, the head of the World Health Organisation's campaign says.
Jabs for 15m Children in African Blitz on Polio
Three-day drive to turn back disease. Fifteen million children in five west and central African states are being immunised against polio in an emergency three-day blitz aimed at preventing the crippling disease regaining a hold in those countries.
US Scientists Create Polio Virus With Mail Order Chemicals
Scientists in the US have, for the first time, fabricated a working copy of a dangerous disease virus from scratch in the lab, using chemicals obtained by mail order and the publicly available knowledge of the virus's code.
Polio is eradicated from Europe
Now UN health body aims for world free of killer virus by 2005. Polio, which paralysed and killed thousands of small children during its peak in the UK in the late 1940s, was yesterday finally declared to have been eradicated from Europe.
Good news on a bad day for one victim
There are figures and claims: and there are human dimensions. Just as the World Health Organisation was getting its final act together, preparing to proclaim Europe a polio-free zone, I was a human dimension, looking down a moving staircase at Heathrow and funking the challenge.
Medics face £50m vaccine challenge. An international team of doctors is set to launch a desperate, last-ditch bid to save Africa from polio, a scourge once believed to have been defeated but which has recently returned to haunt the continent.
Polio Threat Adds to Suffering
Polio, which can paralyse small children, has become the latest threat to refugees already struggling with famine and disease in the camps of Darfur. Sudan is one of 12 countries that had been polio-free for at least two years but are now again seeing cases of paralysis as a direct result...
Nigerian State Ready to Resume Polio Jabs
The Nigerian state of Kano, the centre of a polio outbreak in Africa, has pledged to resume vaccinations against the disease after accepting that immunisation was not a western plot to harm Muslims. The authorities told the World Health Organisation that an immunisation campaign would...
Polio Outbreak Threatens Africa
The largest epidemic of polio in recent years has broken out in Nigeria and is spreading across central and western Africa, threatening 74 million children with the paralysing disease and jeopardising hopes of eradicating it from the world by the end of the year. In the state of Kano in...
Nigerian State to Lift Ban on Polio Vaccine
The northern Nigerian state of Kano is preparing to reverse its boycott of polio inoculations, which caused a resurgence of the crippling disease and threatened an international campaign to eradicate it. Officials in Kano said they had received a "safe" batch of polio vaccines which had...
Polio Strikes in Botswana As Virus Races Across Africa
An outbreak of polio in Botswana has dealt a fresh blow to the global campaign to eradicate the disease and confirmed fears that it has vaulted across Africa since some states in Nigeria suspended vaccinations. A seven-year-old boy in the north-western district of Ngami was this week...
Polio Jabs a Us Plot, Claim Nigerian Muslims
A campaign to wipe out polio in Africa is being jeopardised by suspicions among Muslim leaders in Nigeria that the vaccination programme is an American plot to make Muslims infertile. A boycott of the oral polio vaccine spread to two more Muslim-dominated states in northern Nigeria...
Immunisation Drive Could Wipe Out Polio By End of 2004
Polio could be eradicated by the end of 2004 in one final last ambitious push to immunise 250 million children several times each, the head of the World Health Organisation's campaign says.
Jabs for 15m Children in African Blitz on Polio
Three-day drive to turn back disease. Fifteen million children in five west and central African states are being immunised against polio in an emergency three-day blitz aimed at preventing the crippling disease regaining a hold in those countries.
US Scientists Create Polio Virus With Mail Order Chemicals
Scientists in the US have, for the first time, fabricated a working copy of a dangerous disease virus from scratch in the lab, using chemicals obtained by mail order and the publicly available knowledge of the virus's code.
Polio is eradicated from Europe
Now UN health body aims for world free of killer virus by 2005. Polio, which paralysed and killed thousands of small children during its peak in the UK in the late 1940s, was yesterday finally declared to have been eradicated from Europe.
Good news on a bad day for one victim
There are figures and claims: and there are human dimensions. Just as the World Health Organisation was getting its final act together, preparing to proclaim Europe a polio-free zone, I was a human dimension, looking down a moving staircase at Heathrow and funking the challenge.