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Although polio has been eliminated as an endemic disease in the United States, that isn’t true for other parts of the world. The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention issued a Level 2 travel ...

Public health agencies including the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) are warning the public about a resurgent virus causing severe respiratory illness that sometimes comes with ...

Given recent headlines, you may be wondering why polio is even an issue in 2022. For more than 60 years, vaccines against the poliovirus have protected virtually everyone in the United States from the ...

Boston public health officials are “exploring options” to monitor for polio after a case of the life-threatening disease was confirmed in New York and wastewater surveillance detected poliovirus in 31 ...

The effort to eradicate polio began in 1988 with a target of making the world free of the disease by the start of the new millennium. But the virus has proved to be a much more di ...

A Feb. 11 Instagram post (direct link, archive link) includes a video of a man talking about several illnesses and their purported causes. In the video, the man offers alternative “causes” of seven ...

DEIR AL BALAH, GAZA - SEPTEMBER 01: A child is vaccinated within the polio vaccination campaign covering more than 640,000 children under the age of 10, in Deir al Balah, Gaza on Sept. 1, 2024. The ...

A wider outbreak in the conflict zone would be difficult to contain and could spread far, experts fear. By Emily Baumgaertner In July, health officials made an unsettling discovery in Gaza: Poliovirus ...

Health Cabinet Secretary Aden Duale after he commissioned a state-of-the-art Expanded Polio Laboratory.[Courtesy] The Kenya Medical Research Institute (KEMRI) has commissioned a state-of-the-art ...