Poliovirus infection occurs by the fecal-oral route. The host ingests the virus, which replicates in the alimentary tract. The virus is then shed in the feces. Most polio infections are ...

“We mucked around” with the structure of poliovirus, Andino told me, and figured out a way to make a modified version of type 2 that’s far stabler. It’s much less likely to mutate away ...

A particular kind of poliovirus is spreading in the United States. The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has confirmed that the country now joins a list of around 30 other countries ...

Poliovirus found in samples of wastewater in New York state have been genetically linked to the case of polio that resulted in an unvaccinated man becoming paralyzed earlier this year. New York ...

Health officials in New York are ramping up efforts to boost polio vaccination rates in local children as yet more poliovirus has surfaced in sewage sampling. On Friday, August 12, New York state ...

Postdoctoral Research Associate, School of Infection and Immunity, University of Glasgow A ten-month-old boy in the Gaza Strip was recently paralysed by poliovirus – the first such case in the ...