Polio

A vaccination expert based in Leeds has implored parents to ensure their children are immunised against the disease which, until this week, had held eradication status in the UK since 2003.

Polio: Yorkshire parents urged to vaccinate babies as one in 10 is unprotected

File image of a vaccine being administered

Polio virus detected in UK

The vaccination programme has been a huge success so far.

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Yorkshire Rotary Club district general Manoj Joshi highlighting a decades long campaign by the Rotary Club polio to eradicate polio from across Africa.
He has been on a recent trip to India earlier this year to help immunise dozens of children himself from the disease. Picture Tony Johnson

Meet the Yorkshire Rotarian helping to eradicate polio around the world

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A child getting an immunisation jab. Photo: Posed by model/PA.

YP Letters: Vaccination success story needs our ongoing support

The plight of polio sufferers has been highlighted in the new movie Breathe.

'The war against polio has not yet been won'

Bad medicine: Irish healer Valentine Greatrakes claimed he could cure Kings Evil. (Picture: Wellcome Library, London).

Horrid coughs and sneezes and dead diseases

Taliban murder health workers campaigning to eradicate polio