COVID-19 Vaccination: What We Can Learn From the Great Polio Vaccine Heist of 1959
We find ourselves at a precarious time in global health. Many people are anxiously awaiting their turn to receive a ...
Tag: Polio
New Vaccine Development Platform Could Fight Deadly, Multi-Drug Resistant Bacteria
A new vaccine development platform has proven effective in protecting against deadly, hard-to-treat infections caused by multi-drug resistant bacteria, thanks ...
What FDR’s Polio Crusade Teaches Us About Presidential Leadership Amid Crisis
Throughout much of the last century, a lethal and terrifying virus besieged America. Then, as now, the fear of contagion ...
Safer Polio Vaccine Strains for the Post-Eradication Era
Addressing concerns about the manufacture and stockpiling of polio vaccines containing live virus, British researchers have generated a new vaccine ...
African Continent Marks 1 Year Polio-Free
This week marks one year since the last wild polio case was detected on the entire African continent, according to ...
Polio Vaccination with Microneedle Patches
The Georgia Institute of Technology and Micron Biomedical have been awarded $2.5 million in grants from the Bill & Melinda ...
Infectious Disease Challenges Caused by Conflict in Syria
Beyond deaths, injuries, and displacements, the ongoing Syrian war is causing growing infectious disease epidemics. Sima Sharara, from the University ...
New Combination Vaccine Strategy to Eradicate Polio
New evidence suggests that giving the Salk inactivated poliovirus vaccine (IPV) to individuals who had already been given the Sabin ...
Using Muslim Clerics to Increase Polio Vaccination in Nigeria
A coalition campaign involving imams, Islamic school teachers, traditional rulers, doctors, journalists, and polio survivors is gradually turning the tide ...
Biodefense News Headlines of the Week – July 20, 2014
Ticking viral bombs, left in boxes | Pakistanis use fake polio vaccination cards to travel overseas | Experts call for ...
Return to Injected Vaccine Could Help Eradicate Polio
Re-introducing a type of polio vaccine that fell out of favor in the 1960s could hasten eradication of the disease, ...
WHO Update on Poliovirus Found in Brazil
On 18 June 2014, Brazil reported to the World Health Organization (WHO) that wild poliovirus type 1 (WPV1) had been ...
Polio Comeback Officially a World Health Emergency
The World Health Organization (WHO) took unprecedented action this week by declaring the potential for polio resurgence a global public ...
UGA Awarded Grand Challenges Funding for Rotavirus Vaccine Research
Rotavirus. Credit: CDC The University of Georgia recently announced that it has received Phase II funding through Grand Challenges Explorations, ...
WHO, UNICEF Conduct Emergency Polio Vaccination Campaign in Syria
The largest-ever consolidated immunization response in the Middle East is under way to stop a polio outbreak, aiming to vaccinate ...
WHO Concerned About Poliovirus Outbreak in Horn of Africa
An outbreak of wild poliovirus type 1 (WPV1) in the Horn of Africa has prompted urgent vaccination campaigns in the ...
Polio Immunization Worker Killed in Pakistan
A World Health Organization (WHO) worker assisting the anti-polio campaign in Pakistan was shot and killed this week. The tragedy ...
Bin Laden Vaccine Ruse and the War on Polio
How has the CIA’s decision to send a vaccination team into the Bin Laden compound to gather information and DNA ...
WHO to Declare Polio Resurgence a Global Health Emergency
The World Health Organization (WHO) is expected to this week to declare polio a global health emergency. Efforts to eradicate the disease ...
