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Unlike COVID-19, vaccinations for polio are nearly ubiquitous. Could an outbreak actually happen again?

The sole case detected in Rockland County could be the “tip of the iceberg,” says New York state health commissioner

In rare cases, the weakened live poliovirus in the vaccine can mutate, regain virulence, and cause polio

A New York man who has been left paralysed has suffered the same polio strain as found in London and Jerusalem it has been confirmed by the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

No one studying polio knew more than Albert Sabin, the Polish-American scientist whose vaccine against the crippling disease has been used worldwide since 1959. Sabin’s oral vaccine provides lifelong immunity. It has one drawback, which Sabin, who died in 1993, fiercely disputed: In rare cases, the weakened live poliovirus in…

Health agencies generally don’t test wastewater for signs of polio, which may have given virus time to circulate

PITTSBURGH — After a man in Rockland County, New York, became the first patient to contract polio in the United States in nearly a decade, experts such as Dr. Peter Salk — whose late father, Jonas, developed a vaccine for the disease — said the public shouldn't be alarmed but…

ALBANY, N.Y. — New York health officials confirmed Thursday that a case of polio was recently recorded in Rockland County, the first time the highly infectious virus has been reported in the U.S. since 2013.

The disease remains endemic in Afghanistan and Pakistan but has largely been eradicated in the US