A safer and more affordable polio vaccine could soon be a reality
A more affordable, lower-risk polio vaccine is on the horizon, research led by the University of Leeds has found. Researchers ...
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Leinco Technologies awarded $1M grant to develop rapid test for intestinal immunity to polio
Leinco Technologies, a leader in antibody and protein development, is thrilled to announce that it has been awarded a $1 ...
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 ...
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 ...