The Latest Breaking News from Polio

‘There has been a general downward trend in coverage in most childhood vaccines over the past 5-10 years,’ say scientific advisers to the government

Two and a half years since the first outbreak of Covid-19, experts are warning more disastrous pandemics are likely on the way as we live in a "perfect storm for emerging infectious diseases"

THE UK inflation rate has surged to a level not seen since 1982, new figures revealed last week.

The Saudi Ministry of Health has provided medical services to 216,981 pilgrims who entered the Kingdom via land, air, and seaports, from the beginning of the pilgrims' arrival until Monday, the Saudi Press Agency reported Saturday. According to the ministry, a total of 10,101 pilgrims received preventive treatment for meningitis,…

UK had been declared polio-free since 2003

Businessman Mark Esho MBE was just five when he woke up paralysed from the neck down after contracting polio, which has been detected in the UK for the first time in decades

Most people who get polio do not experience symptoms

Health officials declare national incident and are investigating in London

Scientists have now discovered polio in several sewage samples collected from the London Beckton Sewage Treatment Works

London health authorities are investigating a likely outbreak of polio, the first in nearly 40 years. One in 200 infections causes irreversible paralysis.

Recent reports of poliovirus detected in samples from a sewage treatment works in London have rightly generated significant concern among public health agencies and medical staff. The poliovirus detected is what is called vaccine-derived poliovirus – this is not “wild poliovirus”.