This is Part III in a series on the enteroviruses that appear to cause a polio-like neurological disease, Acute Flaccid Myelitis. Hopefully we can use what we have learned from both the success and ...

One of the world's most dreaded viruses has been turned into a treatment to fight deadly brain tumors. Survival was better than expected for patients in a small study who were given genetically ...

What do you get when you cross a poliovirus with the virus that causes the common cold? An efficient mechanism for killing brain tumors, say scientists at Duke University, who have successfully used ...

Before polio vaccines became available in the 1950s, people wary of the disabling disease were afraid to allow their children outside, let alone go to school. As polio appears again decades after it ...

A Somali baby receives a polio vaccine at the Medina Maternal Child Health center in Mogadishu, Somalia. AP A health official administers a polio vaccine to a child at a camp for people displaced by ...

New York City has detected poliovirus in sewage, according to state and local health officials, suggesting likely local circulation of the virus. This comes as no surprise since last month a case of ...

The poliovirus has been detected in several New York counties, and healthcare officials are urging locals to get vaccinated against the paralytic virus New York Governor Kathy Hochul declared a state ...

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 . The CDC said Wednesday that it will expand wastewater testing for poliovirus in certain U.S. jurisdictions, ...

In 2015, a team of researchers at Duke University was launched into the spotlight by CBS news show 60 Minutes, which devoted a two-part segment to research aimed at turning poliovirus into a treatment ...

A British man has been excreting live poliovirus for an estimated 28 years. An immune deficiency allowed weakened virus from oral polio vaccines to replicate and change within the man’s body. This ...