With growing concern about the circulation of vaccine-derived polioviruses in the United States, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said Wednesday that it would work with select ...

A team of molecular biologists and computer scientists at Stony Brook University has designed and synthesized a new class of weakened polioviruses. They used their synthesizing method with computer ...

New York state health authorities revealed Thursday that they had detected additional polioviruses in wastewater sampled in two counties north of New York City, findings that signal continued spread ...

Since its inception in 1988, Global Polio Eradication Initiative efforts have helped eradicate different types of wild polioviruses so that the last remaining wild strain, type 1, is now largely ...

As in various parts of Germany, polioviruses have been detected in four other European countries. According to researchers, they were also detected in wastewater samples in Spain, Poland, the UK and ...

Afghanistan and Pakistan are the only two countries that still have endemic levels of polio. Parwiz/Reuters The next three years are crucial in the global fight to eradicate the last 1% of polio cases ...

New York health officials announced in July that an unvaccinated adult man from Rockland County had been diagnosed with polio—the first case of the life-threatening disease in the United States since ...

(CNN)-- If polio is near extinction, why do outbreaks still pop up in places where the disease was thought to be long gone? The answer is complicated. Global efforts to destroy disease-causing ...

The existence of poliomyelitis in the developing world was ignored for many years because epidemic polio was considered a disease of wealthier countries. In the 1960s and 1970s, however, “lameness ...

TAMPERE, Finland--Somewhere in Tampere, Finland, someone is excreting polioviruses. He or she has been doing it there since at least 2008, passing stools laced with polioviruses then flushing them ...