polio

Warring forces have occupied Sudan's national laboratory in Khartoum, a situation the local WHO chief described as "extremely dangerous."

"On polio, we simply cannot roll the dice," New York State Health Commissioner Mary Bassett said Friday, urging New Yorkers to get vaccinated against the virus.

If the vaccine had been available at the time I had polio, I would have had it. It's a no-brainer. Polio is not fun. People suffer.

The world seems to be entering a new, deadly era of health threats from infectious diseases—old ones we thought we'd wiped out, and new ones on the rise

Ironically, polio poses a risk only to those who remain unvaccinated.

Some believe that the spike in cases is caused by a strain caused by an oral vaccine, which has been integral in eradicating the virus.

In New York City overall, 86.2 percent of the children had all three doses of the vaccine.

Polio has been detected in wastewater samples taken in New York and London, and health officials are urging people to receive vaccinations.

"For every one case of paralytic polio identified, hundreds more may be undetected," New York State Health Commissioner Dr. Mary T. Bassett said.

Widespread vaccinations efforts have helped to eradicate polio—a potentially debilitating or deadly disease—in the wild across most of the globe.

The New York State Department of Health announced on Thursday that the polio case was found in Rockland County.

The U.K. health authority announced that the poliovirus had been detected in London sewage.

The WHO and UNICEF say the polio outbreak in the Philippines has ended after 16 months have passed with no detected cases. The nation administered 30 million polio vaccines doses since the disease's resurgence in 2019.

If left untreated, the condition can cause permanent paralysis and life-threatening complications from respiratory failure.

At the moment, there are no antiviral drugs that can treat or prevent rhinoviruses and enteroviruses.

Mona Randolph is one of three people in the U.S. who still uses an iron lung.

Researchers found that a genetically engineered poliovirus could treat the most common form of brain cancer.

The number of global polio cases has declined by over 99 percent since 1988.

But the country's economic crisis has led to shortages of vaccines and medicine.

Ongoing economic turmoil has led to a shortage of vaccines for the deadly virus.

The lessons infectious disease preparedness and response researchers are learning in Pakistan, during what's hopefully a final push against polio, will also apply elsewhere, as public health experts work to wipe out other infectious diseases around the world.

Should avoiding vaccines be treated like a crime? Increasingly it is.

Three vaccines, for diphtheria, tetanus and poliomyelitis, are already mandatory in France.

An unexplained shortage of the injectable version of the vaccine slows attempts to kill polio in Afghanistan, Nigeria and Pakistan.

Two children have been paralyzed by the virus in Borno, the heartland of Boko Haram.

Vaccination rates have fallen dramatically in the last few years, and the conflict is making things worse.

If we were to act today with the same imagination as Dr. Salk we could wipe out polio for good.

"There is no mercy, we have decided to deal with the refusal cases with iron hands."

Chad Hayes on why he allowed his baby to be given all the shots.

With four more health workers killed this week, trying to eradicate the virus is a dangerous job