MeSH tree: D20.215.894.830.614
It was like a horror movie. The invisible polio virus would strike, leaving young children on crutches, in wheelchairs or in a dreaded "iron lung" ventilator. Each summer, the fear was so great that public pools and movie ...
Dec 22, 2025
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Wearing masks, avoiding large gatherings, shutting down schools—those scenes might sound familiar to anyone who experienced the most recent global pandemic.
Dec 8, 2025
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The World Health Organization has declared Indonesia's polio outbreak officially over, following nearly three years of intensive response efforts, officials said Friday.
Nov 21, 2025
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For the past decade, Sughra Ayaz has traveled door to door in southeastern Pakistan, pleading with parents to allow children to be vaccinated against polio as part of a global campaign to wipe out the paralytic disease. She ...
Aug 5, 2025
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Last week the World Health Organization (WHO) declared a polio outbreak in Papua New Guinea (PNG).
May 19, 2025
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Aside from recent outbreaks of polio in war-torn regions of the world, the deadly virus is close to being eradicated, thanks to vaccines.
Apr 14, 2025
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Polio ravaged human bodies for hundreds of years, but the misery began to wane 70 years ago when two polio vaccines developed in the U.S. halted the virus' spread.
Apr 5, 2025
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University of Leeds researchers have taken a major step towards producing a more affordable and lower-risk polio vaccine using virus-like particles (VLPs). These particles mimic the outer protein shell of poliovirus, but ...
Mar 11, 2025
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Between September and December 2024, four countries in the EU/EEA (Finland, Germany, Poland, Spain) and the United Kingdom reported detections of circulating vaccine-derived poliovirus type 2 (cVDPV2) in sewage samples. This ...
Jan 31, 2025
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Considered by public health officials to be one of the greatest success stories in recent history, the polio vaccine is currently the subject of a petition by Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s lawyer to withdraw FDA approval for the ...
Dec 18, 2024
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