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 ...

During the Interministerial Meeting on Polio in the Horn of Africa and Yemen, held on the sidelines of the Seventy-ninth ...

Following the detection of two poliovirus strains in Cape Town's wastewater, health authorities are ramping up surveillance ...

An inactivated form of the poliovirus used to treat recurrent brain tumors is showing what researchers called encouraging long-term survival in a Phase 1 clinical trial published Tuesday. The authors ...

A genetically modified poliovirus therapy developed at Duke Cancer Institute shows significantly improved long-term survival for patients with recurrent glioblastoma, with a three-year survival rate ...

The polio eradication campaign initiated in 1988 by the World Health Organization (WHO) led to an impressive decline in cases of paralytic poliomyelitis around the world. The eradication strategy ...

Poliovirus has been detected in a sample from the Subiaco wastewater treatment plant in Perth. Health officials say it is a ...

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 ...

In 1988, the World Health Assembly resolved to eradicate poliomyelitis. Although substantial progress toward this goal has been made, eradication remains elusive. In 2004, the World Health ...

The National Institute for Communicable Diseases (NICD) has detected two polio virus strains in Cape Town's wastewater ...

Health authorities in the U.K. are urging residents to get vaccinated against poliovirus after the virus was found in sewage samples in London. The virus was detected as part of routine surveillance, ...