Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Malawi declares polio outbreak
The first wild poliovirus case in Africa in more than five years has been detected in a young child in Malawi, the World Health Organization said Thursday.
Feb 18, 2022
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News tagged with polio
Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Commonwealth leaders raise polio vaccine spending
(AP) -- Commonwealth government leaders meeting in Australia agreed Saturday to step up efforts to eradicate polio worldwide, despite the Afghanistan war setting back vaccination efforts there and in neighboring Pakistan.
Oct 29, 2011
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Oncology & Cancer
UH treats its first glioblastoma patient with genetically modified poliovirus
University Hospitals (UH) Seidman Cancer Center treated its first patient in a new clinical trial to validate the groundbreaking effects of the poliovirus on glioblastoma (GBM), a deadly Grade IV cancer of the brain.
Jan 24, 2020
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Vaccination
Lessons from how the polio vaccine went from the lab to the public that Americans can learn from today
In 1955, after a field trial involving 1.8 million Americans, the world's first successful polio vaccine was declared "safe, effective, and potent."
Sep 16, 2020
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Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
New York polio case stirs fear, vaccine push
When Brittany Strickland heard that the United States recorded its first polio case in almost a decade, she was "deathly scared"—the 33-year-old wasn't vaccinated against the disabling disease.
Sep 3, 2022
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Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Officials say India close to wiping out polio
(AP) -- Health officials say there has not been a case of polio in India for nine months, the longest the country has ever been polio free.
Oct 24, 2011
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Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Polio is back in Indonesia, sparking vaccination campaign
Children in school uniforms and toddlers with their parents lined up Monday for polio vaccinations in the Sigli town square on the northern tip of the Indonesian island of Sumatra, after four children were found infected ...
Nov 28, 2022
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Health
Former WHO chief Hiroshi Nakajima dies at 84
Hiroshi Nakajima, a Japanese doctor and former director-general of the World Health Organization, died at the weekend in France at the age of 84, the UN health body said Monday.
Jan 28, 2013
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Vaccination
How the polio vaccine virus occasionally becomes dangerous
While the world reels from the spread of SARS-CoV2, the new coronavirus behind COVID-19, a much older and previously feared scourge—poliovirus—is close to being completely eradicated. The polio vaccines, developed by ...
Nov 18, 2020
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Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
'Designer virus' is first new polio vaccine in 50 years
Before being halted due to the COVID-19 pandemic, a relentless vaccination campaign had nearly succeeded in eradicating polio from the world. Between 2000 and 2017, the World Health Organization (WHO) estimated that its campaign ...
Apr 23, 2020
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