The Latest Breaking News from Polio

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 disease. Due to an enormously successful polio vaccination campaign beginning in the 1950s when the first…

The poliovirus has been detected in wastewater in New York. If you are unsure of your vaccination status, here are a few ways to find out.

Polio is popping up in NY wastewater. What does this mean for school-aged children?

Before polio vaccines became available in the 1950s, people wary of the disabling disease were afraid to allow their children outside, let alone go to school. As polio appears again decades after it was considered eliminated in the U.S., Americans unfamiliar with the dreaded disease need a primer on protecting…

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Also known as enterovirus D68, the virus can cause paralysis in kids. Here's what to know about EV-D68

LOS ANGELES — Health officials are warning doctors about another contagious virus that, in rare cases, can send children to the hospital or lead to permanent paralysis.

A three-year-old boy in the southern Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa province becomes the latest victim of the virus.

The World Health Organisation expects a rise in COVID-19 in Ukraine to peak in October, possibly bringing hospitals close to their capacity threshold, WHO's director-general Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said on Monday.

New York Gov. Kathy Hochul said the state is stepping up polio-fighting efforts as the virus was detected in the wastewater of another county in the New York City area.

ALBANY, N.Y. — New York declared a state of emergency on Friday to boost vaccinations against polio.