The latest goal for the end of polio transmission will almost certainly not be met, according to a frank and concerning report about the future of the decades-long polio eradication effort that was ...

In the United States, children routinely receive an injectable form of the polio vaccine. This vaccine is very effective at ...

ALBANY — Wastewater samples in three upstate counties continue to show signs of polio transmission, according to the most recent sequencing data published by state and federal health agencies.

The scientists found that administering the adjuvant with the vaccine yielded a two-fold increase in gut mucosal antibodies.

When a young adult in a New York City suburb visited an emergency department in June after experiencing weakness in their lower legs, the shocking diagnosis would lead local officials to declare a ...

An unvaccinated young adult in Rockland County, a suburb of New York City, who caught polio in June and suffered paralysis had no history of international travel. The individual caught polio through ...

Even with in-country vaccination campaigns and global aid, Pakistan and Afghanistan have so far been unable to stop transmission of the disease. In 2024, Pakistan's numbers spiked to 74 while ...

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 ...

New York health officials are warning about the likely spread of polio after the virus was detected in wastewater in New York City, Rockland County and Orange County. Rockland County health officials ...