There is No Cure for Polio. The Only Treatment is Prevention.
And the tool for prevention is vaccination, the same tool that eliminated polio in the U.S. in the first place. ...
And the tool for prevention is vaccination, the same tool that eliminated polio in the U.S. in the first place. ...
UK Health Security Agency initiates epidemiological investigation to protect public, who are urged to ensure polio vaccines are up to ...
We find ourselves at a precarious time in global health. Many people are anxiously awaiting their turn to receive a ...
A new vaccine development platform has proven effective in protecting against deadly, hard-to-treat infections caused by multi-drug resistant bacteria, thanks ...
Vaccines are a marvel of medicine. Few interventions can claim to have saved as many lives. But it may surprise ...
Throughout much of the last century, a lethal and terrifying virus besieged America. Then, as now, the fear of contagion ...
Addressing concerns about the manufacture and stockpiling of polio vaccines containing live virus, British researchers have generated a new vaccine ...
This week marks one year since the last wild polio case was detected on the entire African continent, according to ...
The Georgia Institute of Technology and Micron Biomedical have been awarded $2.5 million in grants from the Bill & Melinda ...
Beyond deaths, injuries, and displacements, the ongoing Syrian war is causing growing infectious disease epidemics. Sima Sharara, from the University ...
New evidence suggests that giving the Salk inactivated poliovirus vaccine (IPV) to individuals who had already been given the Sabin ...
A coalition campaign involving imams, Islamic school teachers, traditional rulers, doctors, journalists, and polio survivors is gradually turning the tide ...
Ticking viral bombs, left in boxes | Pakistanis use fake polio vaccination cards to travel overseas | Experts call for ...
Re-introducing a type of polio vaccine that fell out of favor in the 1960s could hasten eradication of the disease, ...
On 18 June 2014, Brazil reported to the World Health Organization (WHO) that wild poliovirus type 1 (WPV1) had been ...
The World Health Organization (WHO) took unprecedented action this week by declaring the potential for polio resurgence a global public ...
Rotavirus. Credit: CDC The University of Georgia recently announced that it has received Phase II funding through Grand Challenges Explorations, ...
The largest-ever consolidated immunization response in the Middle East is under way to stop a polio outbreak, aiming to vaccinate ...
An outbreak of wild poliovirus type 1 (WPV1) in the Horn of Africa has prompted urgent vaccination campaigns in the ...
A World Health Organization (WHO) worker assisting the anti-polio campaign in Pakistan was shot and killed this week. The tragedy ...