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 ...

The wastewater environmental surveillance conducted in Jerusalem, Israel, has detected an increasing population of poliovirus type 2. Furthermore, these viral isolates are associated with ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . There was a 694% increase in paralytic cases of type 1 circulating vaccine-derived polio from 2021 to 2022. The ...

LONDON (Reuters) -The wild form of the virus behind polio has been detected in wastewater sampling in Germany, the nation's main public health body told Reuters on Wednesday, in a setback for efforts ...

Background. Due to global shortage of inactivated poliovirus vaccine and withdrawal of oral vaccine containing poliovirus type 2 (PV2), a PV2-containing vaccine was not used in Vietnam May 2016 to ...

The global endgame for polio has long been eradication, but recent events in the U.S. and around the world have raised questions about whether that lofty goal can be achieved, poliovirus experts say.

In a recent study published in The Lancet, researchers investigated molecular properties of type 2 poliovirus (PV) isolates obtained from sewage samples (SS) to detect PV transmission in communities.

In line with this roadmap, the first nationwide polio campaign of 2026 will be conducted from 2nd to 8th February across the ...

Official figures show that polio cases declined by 59.5% in 2025, with transmission now restricted to fewer geographical ...

Polio cases in Pakistan reached 31 for 2025 after a North Waziristan child tested positive. Despite declining trends, ...