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Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. New York City health officials reported traces of the polio virus in sewage water. Most people who get polio will not have visible ...

PHILADELPHIA (WPVI) -- It's a virus that hasn't made many headlines in years, but polio is now the subject of viral chatter after a confirmed case in New York state. New York City officials also ...

With a polio case reported in Rockland County, New York, adults may be wondering whether they should get a polio vaccine booster after getting vaccinated as a child. Didn’t think you’d have “Decide ...

The virus that causes polio has been detected in New York City's wastewater weeks after a case of polio was identified in Rockland County, north of the city, health officials announced Friday. The ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Polio disabled about 35,000 people in the US each year at its peak, according to the CDC. Mia Farrow said she was quarantined with ...

On July 14, 2022, the New York State Department of Health announced that it had identified a case of paralytic polio in a young, unvaccinated adult who had no related travel history. Even one case of ...

We're in the last mile in the fight to eradicate polio, but progress is fragile. As long as the disease is a threat anywhere, it remains a threat everywhere. A look at how UNICEF and partners are ...

Before polio vaccines became available in the 1950s, people wary of the disabling disease were afraid to allow their children outside, let alone go to school. As polio appears again decades after it ...

The National Institute for Communicable Diseases (NICD) has detected two polio virus strains (VDPV3 and nOPV2-L) in wastewater samples from a treatment plant in Cape Town, Western Cape. The NICD said ...