There is no cure for polio, but it can be prevented. Danielle Grant, MD, of Texas Children’s Pediatrics, shares more about ...

Carrying decades of geopolitical controversy and lacking rehabilitation, polio survivors shoulder an invisible burden ...

For decades, global efforts to eradicate polio have relied on a deceptively simple tool: a few drops of orangey-red liquid ...

The government has declared a polio outbreak after laboratory tests confirmed the virus in Blantyre sewage samples. The ...

On April 12, 1955, researchers announced the first polio vaccine, which was instantly approved. Before vaccines were available, polio caused 15,000 cases of paralysis in the US each year. The US ...

US wastewater samples are showing an alarming increase in a respiratory virus that has been linked to polio-like symptoms. An enterovirus variant, EV-D68, can lead to acute flaccid myelitis, which can ...

The world is so close to wiping out polio. But in 2025, there are signs that the virus is not quite ready to go the way of smallpox — the only disease eradicated by humans. Two countries are seeing an ...

Ministry of Health and Sanitation has declared polio a public health emergency following confirmation of a new case in Blantyre, marking the first recorded case since 2022. The ministry said the virus ...

Government has declared a polio outbreak in Malawi, raising fresh public health fears and reviving memories of the 2022 crisis that shook the country.In a statement, the Ministry of Health and ...

One of RFK Jr.’s vaccine advisers recently floated the idea of stopping vaccination against the virus. It would be ...