It’s a drive that has been taken up on the ground in metropolitan cities, barren deserts, snow-capped mountainsides and conflict affected areas as well as by governments, NGOs and private partnerships ...

The global campaign to eradicate polio has been incredibly successful except in one key way: It hasn't actually eradicated polio. Some prominent scientists who've spent their entire careers battling ...

Now is the time to pull through on efforts to rid the world of polio once and for all — or continue managing it through costly outbreak responses, UNICEF argues in a new call to action. Support UNICEF ...

While Robert F. Kennedy Jr., President Donald Trump’s pick to lead the US Department of Health and Human Services, has backpedaled on his anti-vaccine rhetoric during his Senate confirmation hearings, ...

If the cell’s protein ULK1 is inhibited, the virus production in the cells is drastically increased. This explains why poliovirus tries to degrade ULK1. The animation shows different viewpoints of a ...

Nobody expected polio to be back. It’s 2040, a decade since the disease was eradicated. The global health campaign that vanquished the virus has disbanded; immunization efforts have slackened. Then, ...

Despite some of the most successful international vaccination campaigns in history, the poliovirus continues to circulate around the world, posing a threat of neurological damage and even paralysis to ...

Here’s a multiple-choice question. When you get really close to a goal that you’ve worked towards for decades, should you: Redouble efforts. Stay the course. Reverse course and do less. Number three ...

“Even a single case of polio is a threat,” opined New York State Health Commissioner Mary T. Bassette in an op-ed essay in The New York Times on Aug. 21. “The case of a young adult paralyzed by polio ...

Share on Pinterest Why has polio reemerged in the US in 2022, and what should we know about it? Image credit: Lisa-Blue/Getty Images. In 1952, the United States experienced its largest outbreak of ...

There are an estimated 300,000 polio survivors in the United States. For some, the nomination of Robert F. Kennedy Jr. as health secretary is reviving their painful memories. By Sheryl Gay Stolberg ...