Medicine & TechnologyPolio eradication campaign could succeed in the next few years, and experts exercise measures to keep it from coming back. Learn more about it in this article.
World Polio Day is celebrated on October 24 every year to honor the efforts towards a polio-free world that has been a huge success. Read the article to learn more about this important day.
Canadian health officials are concerned that the pandemic has led children to miss routine immunizations, fueled vaccine hesitancy that leaves some vulnerable to polio that has infected a man in the US recently. Read the article to know more about this report.
Health officials encouraged people to get a polio vaccine as an unvaccinated man from New York was diagnosed with polio. Continue reading to know the full story.
The first polio case in the US in nearly 10 years is from New York. Read the article to learn why one needs to get a vaccine against the life-threatening disease.
The health officials from the United Kingdom confirmed that poliovirus was detected in London sewage. Parents are encouraged to ensure their kids get the polio vaccine to fight the virus. Read more to know the full details.
Check out the incredible life story of "Polio Paul," one of the last men with an iron lung today that has lived in the large steel ventilator for seven decades.
Africa has recorded polio outbreaks last month, which is a strain associated with the one found in Pakistan. Learn more about this new outbreak that has become a grave threat to eradicate.
A recent analysis showed LAVs or live-attenuated vaccines like those injected for measles, tuberculosis and polio may be potential for immunity to COVID-19.
A rare but deadly illness returns to the United States every two years and is due between August and November this year. AFM usually follows respiratory illness. The CDC's warning is focused on parents as acute flaccid myelitis are mostly occur in children and will be happening during flu season and the current pandemic.