Here is what we know about polio as a disease, its vaccines and the likely number of lives saved through inoculation.

Polio, a disease that can cause lifelong paralysis, has been eliminated from the U.S. Experts fear a resurgence if lifesaving ...

A senior World Health Organization official cautioned Wednesday that the eradication of polio in Afghanistan and Pakistan, ...

Between September and December 2024, four countries in the EU/EEA (Finland, Germany, Poland, Spain) and the United Kingdom ...

Ramallah: The Gaza Strip recorded the first case of poliovirus infection in 25 years as the enclave continues to toil in the protracted conflict. The Ramallah-based Palestinian health ministry on ...

An unusually high amount of poliovirus detections in several European countries in recent months has underscored the ...

For roughly 80 years, she has coped with the aftermath of a polio infection, including the late effects of polio, called post-polio syndrome. She now needs a wheelchair or mobility scooter to get ...

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ISLAMABAD: Another poliovirus case has been detected in Pakistan, bringing the tally to 71 in 2024, the Regional Reference Laboratory for Polio Eradication at the National Institute of Health (NIH ...

He began investigating the poliovirus. To start with ... He wanted to mimic the real-life infection as much as possible; that meant using a weakened form of the live virus. He experimented ...

Pakistan's National Institute of Health has confirmed the country's 71st case of wild poliovirus type 1 (WPV1) for 2024. The latest case, involving a male child from Jacobabad, was reported on ...