Polio
Poliovirus Detected in Wastewater in EU/EEA, UK
Sewage samples from four European Union/European Economic Area (EU/EEA) countries and the United Kingdom have ...
MAY 12, 2025
Polio Elimination Still Facing Hurdles
To end polio, countries must increase vaccination levels in all places, focusing where the virus is most likely to ...
JULY 12, 2023
CDC Expanding Wastewater Testing for Polio
The CDC will expand wastewater testing for poliovirus in certain communities across the United States, the agency ...
DECEMBER 14, 2022
Polio Emergency Declaration Expands Network of Vaccine Administrators in New York
About 70% of people with poliovirus are asymptomatic, but can still spread the disease to others.
SEPTEMBER 13, 2022
Low Vaccination Rates Result in New U.S. Polio Case
A case of paralytic poliovirus occurring in a previously healthy, yet unvaccinated, adult in New York with no ...
AUGUST 26, 2022
N.Y. Reports First U.S. Polio Case in Almost a Decade
A case of polio—the first since 2013—was diagnosed in Rockland County, N.Y., in an unvaccinated man, ...
JULY 22, 2022
Poliovirus Detected in Sewage From North and East London
The National Health Service will begin outreach to parents of London children younger than 5 years of age who are ...
JUNE 22, 2022
Polio Surveillance Rebounds Following Pandemic Dip
Acute flaccid paralysis surveillance, the primary tracker for poliovirus transmission, bounced back during 2021, ...
MAY 3, 2022
Vaccine-Derived Poliovirus Outbreaks Continue
In May 2021, the Global Polio Eradication Initiative launched an updated strategy to stop cVDPV type 2 outbreaks by ...
JANUARY 25, 2022
Wild Poliovirus Cases Fall in Nigeria
The number of children living in insurgent-held areas in Borno who have not had access to poliovirus vaccines was ...
AUGUST 21, 2019
Number of Vaccine-Derived Polioviruses Increases
Stopping the spread of vaccine-derived cases will be possible only when full poliovirus eradication is achieved, ...
DECEMBER 10, 2018
More Evidence Points to Enterovirus D68 as Paralyzing Agent
More than 120 children developed the condition, known as acute flaccid myelitis, in the U.S. alone.
JANUARY 25, 2018
