The ending of wild polio virus type 3 will be the third human disease-causing pathogen to be eradicated in history, after smallpox was declared wiped out in 1980 and wild polio virus type 2 in 2015.

Experts say challenges with vaccination programmes on the ground have led to the ongoing transmission of the wild polio virus ...

TORONTO - The effort to rid the world of polio is too often a journey of one step forward and two steps back, with the heartbreaking news that polio is crippling toddlers in war-ravaged Syria the most ...

In tests of spinal fluid, some children have had evidence of a type of pathogen known as an enterovirus. Doctors have identified two different ones: EV-D68 and EV-A71.

A new method to produce a stable fragment of poliovirus could enable safer production of vaccines, according to a study published in PLOS Pathogens. Polio is almost completely eradicated, but ...

A resolution by the World Health Assembly (the annual policy making body of the 193 member states of WHO) establishing a Global Pathogens Initiative could require countries to establish a list of ...

Use the tissue culture to grow new viruses. The goal in creating a killed vaccine is to disable a pathogen's replicating ability (its ability to enter cells and multiply) while keeping intact its ...

An Afghan health worker administers polio vaccine to a child last week during a vaccination campaign in Kabul. The Public Health Ministry, UNICEF and the World Health Organization organized the ...

Only polio virus Type 1 persists, and only in Pakistan and Afghanistan. But now mutant vaccine viruses are paralyzing some unvaccinated children. By Donald G. McNeil Jr. In another milestone on ...

DUBAI (Reuters) - A 10-month-old baby in war-shattered Gaza has been paralysed by the type 2 polio virus, the first such case in the territory in 25 years, the World Health Organization said on ...