After the U.S. recorded its first polio case since 2013 this summer, what was once perceived by many Americans as a disease of the past has become a more present threat. In July, the New York State ...

(WXYZ) — Oakland County’s wastewater will be tested for signs of polio infections. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has expanded its testing to ...

“The case of a young adult paralyzed by polio in New York is not simply unexpected. It’s shocking,” she wrote exactly one month after a 20-year-old unvaccinated man contracted the disease. Polio may ...

(CNN) — 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 ...

FILE - A health worker administers a polio vaccine to a child in Karachi, Pakistan, Monday, Jan. 8, 2024. (AP Photo/Fareed Khan, File) LONDON (AP) — Polio was eliminated from most parts of the world ...

The recent discovery of Polio in New York City's wastewater got one listener curious. Amy from Arizona left a voice mail for the team at 5 Things asking how Polio was found? Were they looking for it ...

LONDON (Reuters) -Germany has found the wild polio virus in a sewage sample in Hamburg, the first such detection in Europe since 2010. WHAT IS POLIO? Polio, short for poliomyelitis, is an infectious ...

Since 2020, much of the world has been focused on the COVID-19 pandemic and how to slow the spread of that virus. Now, a health concern from a bygone era has made a quiet comeback that has experts ...

I contracted polio 25 years after the world already had Dr. Jonas Salk’s vaccine. I was living in poverty in India in 1980 in the Southern state of Tamil Nadu, and my birth mother hadn’t heard ...