As vaccination rates among children continue to plummet, concerns are rising over the potential for infectious disease to ...

We are at great risk for re-emergence of polio in this country." Like Texas, some Florida schools — such as an elementary school in Broward County last year — have already seen measles outbreaks.

Yet non-polio enteroviruses can also lead to the same devastating symptoms of 'acute flaccid paralysis' (AFP), but the world is lacking formal surveillance systems to trace and control these ...

Polio cases were once common in the United States and around the world. During one of the most severe outbreaks in 1952, the virus infected 58,000 people in the US, paralyzed more than 21,000 and ...

A Palestinian child with a visible skin rash walks past a pool of sewage water on a street in Deir el-Balah in the central Gaza Strip ... WHO said over 1.6 million doses of the polio vaccine, ...

Before the first vaccine was developed in the 1950s, polio was among the most feared diseases. An explosive 1916 outbreak in New York killed more than 2,000 people and the worst recorded U.S ...

The Global Polio Eradication Initiative (GPEI) needs more funds and has pushed back by three years its target to officially wipe out all forms of the disease, officials said on Thursday.