polio

The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation says it is committing $1.2 billion to efforts aimed at ending polio worldwide.

New York Gov. Kathy Hochul declared a state of emergency on Friday as yet another county announced detection of the virus in wastewater samples, a sign the outbreak continues to spread throughout the Empire State. The governor’s declaration came the same day local authorities on Long Island said recent testing of wastewater in Nassau County turned up positive traces...

Polio viruses recently found in Jerusalem, New York and London were mutated versions of viruses that first originated in vaccines meant to stamp out the paralytic disease.

The polio case in Rockland County revealed last month remains a mystery, but so far no one else has turned up with the virus, the CDC said Tuesday. New York health officials disclosed the case on July 21; an unvaccinated man in his 20s presented with symptoms that included partial paralysis, and the once-dreaded disease was confirmed with follow-up testing….

Coronavirus, monkeypox and polio are all making headlines lately. To learn more about each, we brought in Dr. Bob Lahita from St. Joseph’s University Hospital in Paterson, NJ.

New York has one confirmed polio case but health officials say wastewater surveillance indicates there may be hundreds of people infected. While most Americans are vaccinated against polio, experts say the case should serve as a wake-up call to those who aren’t. Here’s what you need to know.

There are new concerns about the potential spread of polio in New York, with the state health commissioner saying there could be “hundreds” of people infected as new evidence shows the virus has been found in samples from multiple counties. The state health department, which launched wastewater surveillance earlier this month after officials announced the first confirmed U.S. polio...

The CDC has detected more polio virus in more Hudson Valley wastewater samples, now in a different New York county — and state health officials are now warning that the latest environmental evidence “further indicates potential community spread” of a childhood disease that the United States declared eradicated more than four decades ago. The state health department, which launched wastewater…

Polio is the state of paralysis caused by the highly contagious poliovirus. Here’s what you need to know to protect your family.

A New York individual has been diagnosed with polio, in what may be the first U.S. case of the dreaded disease in decades.

Authorities are investigating the spread of poliovirus found in London sewage samples.