A more affordable, lower-risk polio vaccine is on the horizon, research led by the University of Leeds has found. Researchers have taken a major step towards producing a more affordable and lower-risk ...

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In the 1940s and 1950s, hospital wards in the U.S. were filled with iron lungs helping many children, and some adults, who had polio breathe and stay alive. The use of polio vaccines have helped make ...

Last week the World Health Organisation (WHO) declared a polio outbreak in Papua New Guinea (PNG). The highly infectious virus was found in two healthy, polio-vaccinated children who were screened ...

Although polio has been eliminated as an endemic disease in the United States, that isn’t true for other parts of the world. The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention issued a Level 2 travel ...

Thanks to an incredibly successful vaccination program, wild poliovirus has been eliminated in the United States since 1979. For this reason, it’s not a disease that you hear about often in the U.S.