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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

A wider outbreak in the conflict zone would be difficult to contain and could spread far, experts fear. By Emily Baumgaertner In July, health officials made an unsettling discovery in Gaza: Poliovirus ...

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 ...

Thanks to effective vaccination, polio is considered nearly eradicated. Each year only a few hundred people are stricken worldwide. However, scientists of the University of Bonn, together with ...

In Germany in the summer and autumn of 2016, several cases of illness in children were observed that were accompanied by acute flaccid paralysis. For the entire year 2016, 16 of such polio-like cases ...

Health Cabinet Secretary Aden Duale after he commissioned a state-of-the-art Expanded Polio Laboratory.[Courtesy] The Kenya Medical Research Institute (KEMRI) has commissioned a state-of-the-art ...

Jennifer Girotto consults for Lexi-Comp. She has received grant funds from Pfizer to support independent quality improvement specific to outpatient antimicrobial stewardship. Unfortunately, even today ...