Oct 26 Pakistan’s first cartoon superheroine joins fight against polio By Carey Reed Amid a rise in polio cases in Pakistan, the country's first animated female superhero, Burka Avenger, has joined the fight to eradicate the highly-infectious virus. Continue reading
May 16 1937 baseball film captures rare images of FDR walking By Justin Scuiletti Rare footage of President Franklin Delano Roosevelt walking, aided by braces on his legs as well as several Secret Service agents, has been made public after nearly 80 years. Continue reading
May 06 Watch Persistence is key to wiping out polio outbreaks in fragile nations By PBS NewsHour Signaling a new public health emergency, the World Health Organization warns that if polio is not completely eradicated it could become endemic again. Worldwide, 74 cases of the crippling disease have been confirmed this year, with Syria, Cameroon and Pakistan… Continue watching
May 05 Watch News Wrap: UN says polio outbreak is global emergency By PBS NewsHour In our news wrap Monday, the World Health Organization has declared a global health emergency amid outbreaks of polio across Asia, Africa and the Middle East. The U.N. agency says the number of new cases last year nearly doubled to… Continue watching
Mar 16 Diseases once thought eradicated reappear in the U.S. By Kristin Miller On March 7, the New York City Department of Health issued a warning about an outbreak of measles in northern Manhattan and the Bronx and urged all New Yorkers to make sure they are vaccinated against measles. Canadian… Continue reading
Mar 16 Watch Measles outbreak sparks fear of resurgent diseases By PBS NewsHour Recent outbreaks of measles on both the East and West Coasts highlight a larger story about how infectious diseases that had all but disappeared in the U.S. are now reappearing. Why are some of these diseases showing back up? Hari… Continue watching
Jan 23 Pakistan poses global polio threat as violence against vaccination teams continues By Robert Pursell Following another string of deadly attacks on Polio vaccination teams by Taliban militant groups, the World Health Organization said Wednesday that Pakistan's polio crisis threatens to spread across the globe. Continue reading
Jan 17 Watch India marks three years without polio, but challenges still remain By PBS NewsHour Health officials in India have hit a milestone in their efforts to eradicate polio: It has been three years since the country's last reported case of the crippling disease. Special correspondent Fred de Sam Lazaro reports on India's challenge to… Continue watching
Jan 13 India reaches milestone in fight against polio By News Desk India’s vaccination efforts against the polio virus has seen success. The country hasn’t had a reported case of polio in three years. Image by Flickr user Gates Foundation After three years without a reported case of polio, India has… Continue reading
Oct 29 Watch Will polio outbreak inspire international community to do more about Syria? Will polio outbreak inspire international community to do more about Syria?… Continue watching