A particular kind of poliovirus is spreading in the United States. The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has confirmed that the country now joins a list of around 30 other countries ...

Mass campaigns with oral poliovirus vaccine (OPV) have brought the world close to the eradication of wild poliovirus. However, to complete eradication, OPV must itself be withdrawn to prevent outbr ...

Poliovirus therapy is still in clinical trials and not ready yet for the general public. Big questions are potential cost, as some current viral therapies are about $60,000 per treatment and the ...

Poliovirus disease can be identified in part on the basis of specific anterior horn cell lesions, but the diagnosis also requires analysis of appropriate specimens, ...

ISLAMABAD: Pakistan’s polio tally for 2025 rose to 13 after the National Institute of Health’s Regional Reference Laboratory ...

From June 26 to 28, newborns to children aged 5 years will be vaccinated in provinces of Kinshasa, Tanganyika, Haut-Lomami, ...

Poliovirus is detected in sewage when people shed traces of the virus in their poop, but it doesn’t necessarily mean that people are sick.

A vaccine-derived version of poliovirus has repeatedly surfaced in London sewage over the past several months, suggesting there may be a cryptic or hidden spread among some unvaccinated people, UK ...

A technique developed several years ago involving an engineered hybrid of poliovirus and rhinovirus has shown great promise in treating a lethal form of brain cancer. A new study details how this ...

An inactivated form of the poliovirus used to treat recurrent brain tumors is showing what researchers called encouraging long-term survival in a Phase 1 clinical trial published Tuesday. The ...

Other posts on Facebook have also falsely claimed that poliovirus was found in New York City’s drinking water. As we’ve said, these posts are incorrectly conflating tap water with wastewater.

Pakistani authorities on Friday confirmed one more case of poliovirus in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, taking the total countrywide tally to 13. The case was detected in an 18-month-old child from the ...