Polio is not endemic in the United States, but the disease is circulating in 30 other countries now. A doctor explains how to ...

LONDON (Reuters) -Germany has found the wild polio virus in a sewage sample in Hamburg, the first such detection in Europe since 2010. Polio, short for poliomyelitis, is an infectious disease that ...

The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has raised its polio travel advisory to a Level 2 for 32 countries where ...

(CNN) — While Robert F. Kennedy Jr., President Donald Trump’s pick to lead the US Department of Health and Human Services, has backpedaled on his anti-vaccine rhetoric during his Senate confirmation ...

While polio may seem like a disease of the past, its eradication is still unfinished business—and one of the most ambitious global health undertakings in history. In honor of World Polio Day on ...

The CDC issued a level 2 travel advisory for over 30 countries where poliovirus has been detected. What to know before you go.

The search for vaccines to fight poliomyelitis started in the 1920s, but it wasn't until the 1950s that the search bore fruit with the introduction of two vaccines. The first was the Salk inactivated ...

On Christmas Eve in 2025, there was no Santa or candies for a seven-year-old from Makhetha Township in Blantyre, who was diagnosed with a once-eliminated polio virus. The unvaccinated child was on ...