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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

State, national and local health officials say recent wastewater testing leads them to believe polio is circulating in the Hudson Valley, linking it to a case of paralytic polio in Rockland County.