Poliovirus continues to pose a global public health threat, with both wild and vaccine-derived viruses detected in clinical and environmental samples, including in countries declared to be polio free.
The eradication of polio, a highly contagious disease that can paralyze children, is considered one of the world's great vaccination success stories. It's been wiped out in most of the world, save for ...
Although polio has been eliminated as an endemic disease in the United States, that isn’t true for other parts of the world. The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention issued a Level 2 travel ...