Europe faces growing risk of polio despite ongoing vaccination efforts
An unusually high amount of poliovirus detections in several European countries in recent months has underscored the importance of keeping ...
Tag: Polio
Calls for humanitarian pause to safeguard polio vaccination efforts in Gaza
Two rounds of a polio vaccination campaign are expected to be launched at the end of August and September 2024 ...
Digital payments revolutionize health worker compensation in Africa
Campaigns in Africa to stop polio and other diseases have a more stable, better-motivated workforce thanks to WHO's collaboration with ...
DDNS technique could reduce the time to detect polio, study shows
A new study, 'Sensitive poliovirus detection using nested PCR and nanopore sequencing: a prospective validation study', published today (17 August ...
Advanced cryo-electron microscope reveals how poliovirus takes over human cells
For the first time, researchers at Umeå University, Sweden, can now show how the dreaded poliovirus behaves when it takes ...
Environmental surveillance detects poliovirus type 2 outbreaks in Israel
The wastewater environmental surveillance conducted in Jerusalem, Israel, has detected an increasing population of poliovirus type 2. Furthermore, these viral ...
United States joins 30 other countries with circulating vaccine-derived poliovirus
Sep 19 2022 CDC today announced that polioviruses found in New York, both from the case of paralytic polio in ...
Vaccine-derived poliovirus 2 detected in environmental samples in the UK and USA
Over the last few months, poliovirus 2 derived from the strain used in the Sabin vaccine (oral polio vaccine) has ...
Study shows vaccine-derived poliovirus in infant with severe immunodeficiency
In a recent study published in Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report, researchers identified type 3 vaccine-derived poliovirus (VDPV) in an ...
The most recent evidence about phylogenesis, pathogenesis, prevention, and treatment for monkeypox
The poxviruses are highly relevant to human beings, among which the orthopoxviruses are the best-known. These include the smallpox virus ...
