In 1956, during the height of the polio epidemic in the U.S., health officials in Chicago offer polio shots at a public school. Bettmann via Getty Images Unfortunately, even today, there are ...

The European Regional Commission for the Certification of Poliomyelitis Eradication (RCC) has warned that Europe’s long-held polio-free status could be at risk due to inadequately enforced and ...

This is Part I in a series on the enteroviruses that appear to cause a polio-like neurological disease, Acute Flaccid Myelitis. Reports of this life-threatening condition have increased within the US ...

The first case of polio in the U.S. since 2013 was announced by New York state health officials on July 21, 2022. The U.S. resident had not been vaccinated. Polio was a common cause of paralysis in ...

Boston public health officials are “exploring options” to monitor for polio after a case of the life-threatening disease was confirmed in New York and wastewater surveillance detected poliovirus in 31 ...

Given recent headlines, you may wonder why polio is even an issue in 2022. For more than 60 years, vaccines against the poliovirus have protected virtually everyone in the United States from the ...

The first round of an international campaign to vaccinate children in the Gaza Strip against polio ended in mid-September, with nearly 560,000 kids receiving initial doses amid staggered humanitarian ...

DEIR AL BALAH, GAZA - SEPTEMBER 01: A child is vaccinated within the polio vaccination campaign covering more than 640,000 children under the age of 10, in Deir al Balah, Gaza on Sept. 1, 2024. The ...

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Jennifer Girotto, University of Connecticut (THE CONVERSATION) Given recent headlines, ...

Given recent headlines, you may be wondering why polio is even an issue in 2022. For more than 60 years, vaccines against the poliovirus have protected virtually everyone in the United States from the ...