Trump Budget Eliminates Funding for Crucial Global Vaccination Programs

The spending proposal terminates support of health programs that, according to the proposal, “do not make Americans safer.”

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As Polio Survivors Watch Kennedy Confirmation, All Eyes Are on McConnell

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.

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How Lagging Vaccination Could Lead to a Polio Resurgence

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.

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As RFK Jr. Pursues Bid for Health Secretary, Federal Authorities Begin Campaign for Childhood Vaccines

“Parents have heard so much misinformation,” Kaye Hayes, a federal infectious disease official, said in a statement announcing the campaign. “Many of them are overwhelmed.”

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What RFK Jr. Has Said About the Polio Vaccine in Recent Years

President-elect Donald Trump’s choice for health secretary has suggested that the polio vaccine cost more lives than it saved and that the vaccine did not wipe out the disease in the U.S.

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