As humanitarian funding cuts devastate health institutions, experts fear a foe long-vanquished from much of the world is on ...

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A polio case identified in New York last month is “just the very, very tip of the iceberg” and an indication there “must be several hundred cases in the community circulating,” a senior official with ...

Although polio has been eliminated as an endemic disease in the United States, that isn’t true for other parts of the world. The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention issued a Level 2 travel ...

October 24 marks World Polio Day. The vaccination against poliomyelitis is considered one of the greatest achievements in preventive medicine. It has prevented millions of cases of paralysis and saved ...

Gaza’s health ministry has declared a polio epidemic across the Palestinian enclave, blaming Israel’s devastating military offensive for the spread of the deadly virus. In a statement on Telegram, the ...

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is planning to test wastewater to detect the polio virus in communities at highest risk for the life-threatening and potentially disabling illness. The ...

When polio first broke out in the early 1900s, modern medicine couldn’t keep up. At the start, most patients didn’t make it home from the hospital. The poliovirus often left patients paralyzed and ...