State and local health officials are investigating a case of polio identified last week in Rockland County, the first the U.S. has seen in a decade. The state so far has not identified any other New ...

Anil Oza is a general assignment reporter at STAT focused on the NIH and health equity. You can reach him on Signal at aniloza.16. Vijay Yeldandi was an energetic and rambunctious toddler when he was ...

PHILADELPHIA (WPVI) -- It's a virus that hasn't made many headlines in years, but polio is now the subject of viral chatter after a confirmed case in New York state. New York City officials also ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Polio disabled about 35,000 people in the US each year at its peak, according to the CDC. Mia Farrow said she was quarantined with ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. New York City health officials reported traces of the polio virus in sewage water. Most people who get polio will not have visible ...

On July 14, 2022, the New York State Department of Health announced that it had identified a case of paralytic polio in a young, unvaccinated adult who had no related travel history. Even one case of ...

Before polio vaccines became available in the 1950s, people wary of the disabling disease were afraid to allow their children outside, let alone go to school. As polio appears again decades after it ...

The virus that causes polio has been detected in New York City's wastewater weeks after a case of polio was identified in Rockland County, north of the city, health officials announced Friday. The ...

We're in the last mile in the fight to eradicate polio, but progress is fragile. As long as the disease is a threat anywhere, it remains a threat everywhere. A look at how UNICEF and partners are ...

With a polio case reported in Rockland County, New York, adults may be wondering whether they should get a polio vaccine booster after getting vaccinated as a child. Didn’t think you’d have “Decide ...

The Ministry of Public Health declared the outbreak a public health emergency event on 21 March 2022. In response, Guinea-Bissau organized two rounds of supplementary immunization activities from 27 ...