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 ...

LONDON (Reuters) -Eradicating polio is still possible despite significant funding cuts to the effort, global health officials said on Tuesday as they outlined how they will cope with the shortfall.

The Chicago Department of Public Health announced on Friday it has begun monitoring for the polio virus in wastewater. No cases of polio have been identified in Chicago or Illinois, but the department ...

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 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 ...

Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s lawyer and ally Aaron Siri petitioned the FDA in 2022 to revoke approval of the polio vaccine, which eradicated the disease in the US Jabin Botsford/The Washington Post via ...

We're in the last mile in the fight to eradicate polio, but progress is fragile. As long as the disease is a threat anywhere, it remains a threat everywhere. A look at how UNICEF and partners are ...