The wastewater environmental surveillance conducted in Jerusalem, Israel, has detected an increasing population of poliovirus type 2. Furthermore, these viral isolates are associated with ...

JOHANNESBURG/LONDON - Health officials in Burundi and the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) have detected cases of vaccine-derived poliovirus, the World Health Organization and Global Polio ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . There was a 694% increase in paralytic cases of type 1 circulating vaccine-derived polio from 2021 to 2022. The ...

The Indonesian government responded with two rounds of nationwide vaccination using the novel OPV-2 (nOPV2) vaccine between ...

The global endgame for polio has long been eradication, but recent events in the U.S. and around the world have raised questions about whether that lofty goal can be achieved, poliovirus experts say.

Background. Due to global shortage of inactivated poliovirus vaccine and withdrawal of oral vaccine containing poliovirus type 2 (PV2), a PV2-containing vaccine was not used in Vietnam May 2016 to ...

A new polio vaccine that could tackle mutated strains of the disease has passed phase II clinical trials, according to two studies published in medical journal The Lancet. The vaccine, called nOPV2 ...

Nigeria has made significant progress in its fight against circulating poliovirus type 2 (cVPV2), with Kano and Katsina ...

The Lagos State Government has commenced the second round of its polio vaccination campaign for children aged 0-59 months.

A Tulane University researcher, Dr Elizabeth Norton, has received $1.6 million from the Gates Foundation to develop a ...

Health officials in New York are ramping up efforts to boost polio vaccination rates in local children as yet more poliovirus has surfaced in sewage sampling. On Friday, August 12, New York state and ...