Pakistan's battle against polio has hit a fresh setback, with the deadly virus detected in sewage samples across 20 districts ...

Pakistan faces a polio challenge. Poliovirus is found in sewage samples from various districts, including Islamabad. Sindh ...

Dr Ehsan Ghani, who assumed charge as CEO of the Rawalpindi District Health Authority, confirmed that the three-day campaign will target over 124,000 children under the age of five for polio ...

Is polio poised for a comeback? : Goats and Soda Cases have been rising in Afghanistan and Pakistan — and global health specialists are worried that this year's U.S. foreign aid cuts could usher ...

Falling vaccination rates could lead to the return of previously eliminated diseases, and many more people will be at risk of ...

An unvaccinated resident of Rockland County, N.Y., exposed to a person who received an oral polio vaccine has contracted polio, health officials said; here's what to know about the vaccines.

As polio appears again, decades after it was considered eliminated in the U.S., Americans unfamiliar with the dreaded disease need a primer on protecting themselves and their young children.

Polio is a highly infectious virus that can lead to paralysis and even death. It often spreads through fecal matter. This is a problem in Gaza, which has suffered destruction of much of its water ...

Until recently, polio had been a relic of history in the U.S. Once a scourge that paralyzed or killed up to tens of thousands of children every year, the U.S. declared the disease officially ...

More recently, researchers have found another aspect of the illness that’s a historical throwback. Enterovirus D-68 (EVD-68), which is a cousin of the enterovirus that causes polio, emerged as the ...

Polio, 1955: Before eradication, a tragic mistake. While it's not a perfect comparison to the COVID-19 vaccine program, "the closest thing in my experience is the polio vaccine rollout," Najara said.

Today polio is found in only three countries – Pakistan, Afghanistan, and Nigeria. In 2016, only 37 cases of polio were found in those last pockets, the smallest number of new cases in history ...