Polio has reemerged in the US. Who should get a polio vaccine now? - CNN
Sep 15, 2022 · New York’s governor has declared a state of emergency after health officials detected poliovirus in the wastewater of five counties – evidence the disease is circulating.
United States confirmed as country with circulating vaccine …
Sep 13, 2022 · There are global recommendations for countries with cVDPV2 outbreaks to protect people from polio, and the United States is taking all appropriate actions to prevent new cases of paralysis. The United States now joins a list of about 30 other countries where cVDPVs have been identified. Circulating vaccine-derived poliovirus occurs when local ...
Vaccine-derived polio is undermining the fight to eradicate
Jun 14, 2023 · Wild polio has almost been eradicated, but vaccine-derived strains retain the potential to paralyse. Better vaccines have arrived — but they are only part of the answer. The nOPV2 polio vaccine...
The dream of polio eradication might need a rethink - NPR
Apr 10, 2023 · Some prominent scientists who've spent their entire careers battling polio are now saying it's time to rethink the multi-billion dollar fight against the disease. When the Global Polio...
Shot to Protect Against Polio and Five Other Diseases Is Approved …
Jun 30, 2023 · Polio, officially known as poliomyelitis, is a highly infectious viral disease transmitted mainly through feces in places with poor sanitation. The virus multiplies in the intestine and invades...
Update on Vaccine-Derived Poliovirus Outbreaks ...
Oct 17, 2024 · Despite the goal of permanent cessation of cVDPV2 transmission by switching from tOPV to bOPV, new cVDPV2 polio outbreaks continue to be reported in multiple countries (5,6). This report describes global polio outbreaks due to cVDPVs during January 2023–June 2024 and updates previous reports.
Polio vaccine threat has special resonance to Indian-Americans
3 days ago · The CDC recommends that all children get four doses of the polio vaccine, and all 50 states as well as Washington, D.C., require children entering public school or daycare to receive polio ...
What Kennedy Has Said About the Polio Vaccine in Recent Years
Dec 17, 2024 · But the oral polio vaccine in use at that time contained a weakened, but live, form of the polio virus, and it caused eight to 10 cases of paralytic polio each year. In 1999, federal regulators ...
Two New Vaccines Join the Fight to Eradicate Polio
Jun 14, 2023 · Scientists at UC San Francisco and the UK’s National Institute of Biological Standards and Control (NIBSC) have developed two new oral polio vaccines (nOPVs) to bolster the World Health Organization’s ongoing push to eradicate polio. They follow the release two years ago of the very first nOPV, which was developed at UCSF by the same team.
What the Polio Vaccine Has Meant for Public Health
Dec 13, 2024 · On the day in 1955 that Jonas Salk’s polio vaccine was pronounced “80 to 90 percent effective” against the form of the disease that caused paralysis, 500 medical scientists and 150 reporters ...