New research supported by the Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) has shown that the time to detect polio can be halved using a technique called Direct molecular Detection and ...

On April 12, 1955, U.S. officials heralded the news. Utahns had a front-row seat to the drug trials.

The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention announced Wednesday it will begin testing wastewater samples for polio in Michigan and Pennsylvania as part of an effort to target parts of the ...

Altamonte Springs will begin testing for poliovirus in Orange and south Seminole county wastewater after a case was found in New York. The virus was detected for the first time since 2013 in an ...

“Even a single case of polio is a threat,” opined New York State Health Commissioner Mary T. Bassette in an op-ed essay in The New York Times on Aug. 21. “The case of a young adult paralyzed by polio ...

KINGSTON, N.Y. — Two weeks of wastewater testing in Kingston and New Paltz for polio have come back negative, Ulster County officials said Saturday. “The New York state Department of Health and the ...

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 ...

For the first time since a young man in Rockland County was left paralyzed by polio, batches of recent wastewater testing in downstate counties showed no polio. But health officials say it’s way too ...

U.S. health officials will begin testing wastewater for poliovirus in select locations around the country, including possibly at sites in Michigan and Pennsylvania. The testing will happen in ...

“The case of a young adult paralyzed by polio in New York is not simply unexpected. It’s shocking,” she wrote exactly one month after a 20-year-old unvaccinated man contracted the disease. Polio may ...