The latest goal for the end of polio transmission will almost certainly not be met, according to a frank and concerning report about the future of the decades-long polio eradication effort that was ...

ALBANY — Wastewater samples in three upstate counties continue to show signs of polio transmission, according to the most recent sequencing data published by state and federal health agencies.

On World Polio Day, October 24, 2011, the Independent Monitoring Board of the Global Polio Eradication Initiative issued its third quarterly report. The Independent Monitoring Board “was established ...

Poliovirus has been detected in a sample from the Subiaco wastewater treatment plant in Perth. Health officials say it is a ...

When a young adult in a New York City suburb visited an emergency department in June after experiencing weakness in their lower legs, the shocking diagnosis would lead local officials to declare a ...

An unvaccinated young adult in Rockland County, a suburb of New York City, who caught polio in June and suffered paralysis had no history of international travel. The individual caught polio through ...

The polio virus has been detected in New York City wastewater, suggesting that there’s community transmission in the five boroughs, city and state health officials announced Friday morning. The news ...

New York health officials are warning about the likely spread of polio after the virus was detected in wastewater in New York City, Rockland County and Orange County. Rockland County health officials ...

Before polio vaccines became available in the 1950s, people wary of the disabling disease were afraid to allow their children outside, let alone go to school. As polio appears again decades after it ...