Kennedy faced an avalanche of attacks over his views on vaccines in a fiery confirmation hearing to be Donald Trump's Health ...

Here is what we know about polio as a disease, its vaccines and the likely number of lives saved through inoculation.

Health workers vaccinate a 2-year-old child during a polio vaccination campaign in January 2015 in a rural area of Tehsil Fateh Jang, Punjab in Pakistan. Credit: Wikimedia Commons/ CDC Global ...

Kennedy Jr., a longtime vaccine skeptic, to be his top health official. Kennedy told reporters in December he was “all for” the polio vaccine, seeking to reassure nervous senators ahead of his ...

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The meeting was told that more than 81,000 frontline workers will be deployed to administer the oral polio vaccine (OPV).