The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is considering using the oral polio vaccine for the first time in more than 20 years to stop an outbreak in the greater New York City metropolitan area t...
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Gates Foundation Pledges $1.2 Billion To Polio Eradication
Topline The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation announced Sunday it will donate $1.2 billion to help eradicate wild polio in the two remaining countries—Pakistan and Afghanistan—where the virus is endem...
New York declares state of emergency over polio to boost low vaccination rates
New York Gov. Kathy Hochul on Friday declared a state of emergency over polio to boost vaccination rates in the state amid further evidence that the virus is spreading in communities. Poliovirus has n...
Child polio vaccination rate low in some New York areas, increasing outbreak risk
Nurse Lydia Fulton prepares to administer the measles, mumps, and rubella (MMR) vaccine as well as a vaccine used to help prevent the diseases of diphtheria, pertussis, tetanus, and polio at Children&...
What You Need To Know After Old Threat Was Discovered Spreading In New York, London
Topline Health officials in the U.K. and U.S. are scrambling to forestall the return of polio after the virus that causes it was discovered spreading in New York and London, urging parents to ensure k...
Polio detected in New York City sewage suggesting local circulation of virus
NYC commissioner for health Dr Mary T. Bassett Andy Katz | Pacific Press | Lightrocket | Getty Images Polio has been detected in New York City wastewater, suggesting local circulation of the virus, he...
London Officials Launch Polio Booster Campaign For Children After Virus Detected In Sewage
Topline Health officials in London said Wednesday the city will offer polio vaccine booster shots to children under 10, hoping to guard against a disease that can cause paralysis, two months after the...
New York polio case is ‘tip of iceberg,’ hundreds could be infected
Digitally generated image of 3D molecular model of polio virus Calysta Images | Tetra Images | Getty Images Hundreds could have polio after an adult in the New York City metro area caught the virus an...
First U.S. Polio Case In Nearly A Decade Reported In New York
Topline A case of polio has been diagnosed in New York State, health authorities announced Thursday, marking the first time the infectious disease has been detected in the U.S. in nearly a decade. Key...
Polio case confirmed in New York state, health-care providers told to look for more
Polio virus, illustration. Each virus particle is composed of a protein coat around a core containing RNA genetic material. This virus infects children and causes the disease poliomyelitis or infantil...
UKHSA detects polio virus in London sewage, declares national incident
U.K. health authorities have said they are “urgently” investigating a rare poliovirus discovery in sewage samples in London. Picture Alliance | Getty Images U.K. health authorities have sa...
Polio Spread Detected In London Sewage For First Time In Decades
Topline Several related samples of the virus that causes polio have been detected in the U.K. for the first time in decades, the U.K.’s Health Security Agency said Wednesday, leading British health of...