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 ...

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 ...

(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 ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Vaccine-derived poliovirus type 2 was detected in five of six documented cases of immunodeficiency-associated ...

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 ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Three new outbreaks of circulating vaccine-derived polioviruses were identified and three previously identified ...

The global endgame for polio has long been eradication, but recent events in the U.S. and around the world have raised questions about whether that lofty goal can be achieved, poliovirus experts say.

An outbreak of vaccine-related polio cases has been reported in war-torn Syria, the World Health Organization announced Thursday — another hurdle for a nearly 30-year eradication effort that has seen ...

WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. – Like sleuths on the trail of a family of thieves, scientists have caught another viral intruder in action, revealing how two related viruses use similar but distinct strategies ...

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 ...