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.

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.

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 ...

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 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 ...

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.

In 1952, the United States experienced its largest outbreak of polio with about 20,000 cases. The availability of the inactivated poliovirus vaccine (IPV) in 1955 eradicated the disease in the U.S.

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.

Conquering Polio Fifty years ago, a scientific panel declared Jonas Salk’s polio vaccine a smashing success. A new book takes readers behind the headlines ...

MIDDLETOWN − The hunt for polio starts in an unlikely and less-than-desirable place: a closet-sized room where twice a week, workers siphon off 250 milliliters of the roughly 5.5 million gallons ...

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 ...