By: Amelia Thyen Photo courtesy of Navy Medicine. In response to the detection of paralytic polio in an unvaccinated Rockland County resident earlier this year,
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By Alyson Speshock Photo courtesy of Government of Prince Edward Island; CC-BY-NC-ND. On July 21, 2022, the New York State Department of Health (NYSDOH) reported
By: Amelia Thyen Photo courtesy of Tullio Saba Polio is on the short list of infectious diseases with the potential to be completely eradicated from
By: Caroline Pane Image Credit: United Nations Photo. CC-BY-NC-ND. A 3-year-old in Malawi has the first case of wild-type poliovirus in Africa in 5 years,
By: Autumn Gertz Image courtesy of Darren Hester via Flickr On September 2nd Danish news outlets reported on health ministry inspectors investigating the source of
By: Jiayan Liu Image courtesy of United Nations Photo via Flickr Creative Commons The World Health Organization (WHO) identified nine new polio cases caused by
By: Autumn Gertz Image courtesy of UNICEF Guinea Current Situation On October 21, 2019, the World Health Organization (WHO), United Nations Health Agency, and Zambian
Image courtesy of Eric Fischer on Flickr, CC According to the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), there have been 158 confirmed cases
One confirmed case and three suspected cases of polio have been reported in Venezuela, the first cases to emerge since polio was eradicated from
In 2012, an estimated 122 of the 223 global cases of polio occurred in Nigeria, more than half of the cases worldwide (1,3). Worldwide efforts