Attention has recently been drawn to the detection of poliovirus in the United States for the first time in nearly 10 years. 1 Although this event is notable, it is far from unprecedented.

Oral polio vaccines (shown) have been a key tool in global efforts to eradicate the virus. But the vaccines contain weakened viruses that can replicate and spread to others, and can, in rare cases ...

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 themselves and their young children.

N ew York state health authorities announced Friday that polioviruses have been found in wastewater from New York City, further widening the range of areas in the state at risk of seeing polio ...

The first case of polio in the U.S. since 2013 was announced by New York state health officials on July 21, 2022. The U.S. resident had not been vaccinated. Polio was a common cause of paralysis ...

A polio vaccine box is displayed at a health clinic in Brooklyn, New York on August 17, 2022. In July, a polio case was reported in Rockland County, about 30 miles northwest of Manhattan - the ...

As poliovirus was detected in sewage water in New York City, Syra Madad writes that this should be an alarm and a call to action. Being a vaccine preventable disease that was eradicated in 1979 in ...

The second vaccine, the oral poliovirus vaccine, or OPV, is given orally and uses a live weakened version of the virus. It was the most common vaccine since it was developed in 1961.

With wastewater samples suggesting the presence of poliovirus as early as April, state and city health officials are urging doctors and parents to bring children up to date on immunizations.

Scientists at Umeå University in Sweden report that they can now show how the poliovirus behaves when it takes over an infected cell and tricks the cell into producing new virus particles.

A child is vaccinated as part of the polio vaccination campaign covering more than 640,000 children under the age of 10, in Deir al Balah, Gaza, on September 1, 2024.