Kennedy’s lawyer has asked the FDA to revoke its approval of the polio …
Dec 13, 2024 · President-elect Donald Trump has praised the polio vaccine as the “greatest thing,” but a lawyer affiliated with Trump’s pick to lead the country’s top health agency has petitioned the US...
Vaccine-derived polio is undermining the fight to eradicate
Jun 14, 2023 · Wild polio has almost been eradicated, but vaccine-derived strains retain the potential to paralyse. Better vaccines have arrived — but they are only part of the answer. The nOPV2 polio...
A new polio vaccine joins the fight to vanquish the disease - Science News
Jan 8, 2021 · To stamp out vaccine-derived polio outbreaks, the World Health Organization has granted emergency use for a new polio vaccine. The oral vaccine got the go-ahead on November 13.
McConnell defends polio vaccine after report that RFK Jr ... - NBC News
Dec 13, 2024 · WASHINGTON — Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., a polio survivor, responded critically Friday to a report in The New York Times that a key lawyer and longtime adviser to Robert F....
McConnell says Trump’s nominees should ‘steer clear’ of ... - PBS
Dec 15, 2024 · WASHINGTON (AP) — Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell, who had polio as a child, says any of President-elect Donald Trump’s nominees seeking Senate confirmation should “steer clear” of...
Two New Vaccines Join the Fight to Eradicate Polio
Jun 14, 2023 · Two new oral polio vaccines will help limit the amount of new polio strains and outbreaks by genetically engineering weakened polio virus in the oral vaccine to reduce reversion to dangerous forms.
Mitch McConnell warns RFK Jr. against effort to undermine polio vaccines
Dec 14, 2024 · McConnell, a polio survivor, denounced efforts "to undermine public confidence in proven cures" like the polio vaccine.
Super-engineered vaccines created to help end polio - BBC News
Jun 14, 2023 · Scientists have "super-engineered" polio vaccines to prevent them mutating into a dangerous form that can cause outbreaks and paralysis. The oral vaccines contain weakened live polio...
Shot to Protect Against Polio and Five Other Diseases Is Approved …
Jun 30, 2023 · Adding polio protection to the existing five-component vaccine will raise its cost, but public health officials say the move is still economically advantageous.
Novel vaccines may help quell polio outbreaks
Jun 27, 2023 · An international research team developed two oral polio vaccines that protect mice and avoid some concerns with the current vaccines. If proven effective in ongoing clinical trials, the novel vaccines hold promise for eradicating polio from the planet.
- Some results have been removed