Polio's last stand: The global fight for eradication - Medical Xpress
WEB20 hours ago · The global public health community now has one primary task: to eliminate polio in these last few strongholds and get rid of the final 0.1% of polio cases to be polio-free worldwide. Although the ...
The latest on where Gaza's polio came from -- and the race to …
WEBSep 13, 2024 · Where Gaza’s polio came from. Health officials sequenced the polio virus that appeared in Gaza and traced it to a strain last seen in Egypt in 2023. “There are obviously interactions between ...
Gaza: WHO chief hails ‘massive success’ of polio campaign amid …
WEB13 September 2024 — Around 560,000 children under ten have been successfully vaccinated against polio during the first round of an emergency campaign in the Gaza Strip, the UN World Health ...
Vaccine-derived polio is undermining the fight to eradicate
WEBJun 14, 2023 · In the past 12 months, just 21 cases of wild polio were reported in children across Afghanistan, Pakistan and Mozambique. But cases of another type of polio are worryingly high. Over the past...
Progress Toward Poliomyelitis Eradication — Worldwide, January …
WEBMay 16, 2024 · This report describes global polio immunization, surveillance activities, and poliovirus epidemiology during January 2022–December 2023, using data current as of April 10, 2024. In 2023, Afghanistan and Pakistan identified 12 total WPV1 polio cases, compared with 22 in 2022.
A new polio vaccine joins the fight to vanquish the disease - Science News
WEBJan 8, 2021 · A new polio vaccine joins the fight to vanquish the paralyzing disease. The modified vaccine seeks to end outbreaks in the Middle East and Africa. A baby is vaccinated against polio in...
Shot to Protect Against Polio and Five Other Diseases Is Approved …
WEBJun 30, 2023 · Adding polio protection to the existing five-component vaccine will raise its cost, but public health officials say the move is still economically advantageous.
United States confirmed as country with circulating vaccine …
WEBSep 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.
Spate of polio outbreaks worldwide puts scientists on alert - Nature
WEBAug 22, 2022 · Cases of paralysis in the United States and Israel suggest vaccine-derived poliovirus has infected many people. The virus in widely used live oral vaccine for polio can on rare occasions mutate...
Baby in Gaza paralyzed by mutated polio strain ... - Associated Press News
WEBAug 29, 2024 · LONDON (AP) — The baby in Gaza who was recently paralyzed by polio was infected with a mutated strain of the virus that vaccinated people shed in their waste, according to scientists who say the case is the result of …