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Poliovirus Spreading in the United States: New York Declares State of Emergency

September 27, 2022September 27, 2022 Marinanicole Schultheiss

By: Amelia Thyen Photo courtesy of Navy Medicine. In response to the detection of paralytic polio in an unvaccinated Rockland County resident earlier this year,

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New York State Reports One New Polio Case: The First in the United States Since 2013

August 23, 2022August 23, 2022 Marinanicole Schultheiss

By Alyson Speshock Photo courtesy of Government of Prince Edward Island; CC-BY-NC-ND. On July 21, 2022, the New York State Department of Health (NYSDOH) reported

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Sewage Surveillance Systems in London Detect Vaccine Derived Poliovirus – Still No Confirmed Cases

July 13, 2022 Marinanicole Schultheiss

By: Amelia Thyen Photo courtesy of Tullio Saba Polio is on the short list of infectious diseases with the potential to be completely eradicated from

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Wild Poliovirus in Africa Discovered: First Case in 5 Years

March 15, 2022April 28, 2022 Marinanicole Schultheiss

By: Caroline Pane Image Credit: United Nations Photo. CC-BY-NC-ND. A 3-year-old in Malawi has the first case of wild-type poliovirus in Africa in 5 years,

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Poliovirus found in sewage near vaccine manufacturing facility in the Netherlands

September 4, 2020January 25, 2023 Marinanicole Schultheiss

By: Autumn Gertz Image courtesy of Darren Hester via Flickr On September 2nd Danish news outlets reported on health ministry inspectors investigating the source of

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Concerns about Vaccine-Derived Polio

December 6, 2019January 24, 2023 Marinanicole Schultheiss

By: Jiayan Liu Image courtesy of United Nations Photo via Flickr Creative Commons The World Health Organization (WHO) identified nine new polio cases caused by

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First Local Polio Case in Zambia since 1995

October 29, 2019January 24, 2023 Marinanicole Schultheiss

By: Autumn Gertz Image courtesy of UNICEF Guinea Current Situation On October 21, 2019, the World Health Organization (WHO), United Nations Health Agency, and Zambian

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Update on Acute Flaccid Myelitis in the US: Cases Continue to Rise

December 11, 2018January 25, 2023 Lindsay Bonesteel

Image courtesy of Eric Fischer on Flickr, CC According to the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), there have been 158 confirmed cases

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Update from Venezuela: First Polio Outbreak in Nearly 30 Years

June 14, 2018 Emily Wolfson

  One confirmed case and three suspected cases of polio have been reported in Venezuela, the first cases to emerge since polio was eradicated from

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Polio Reemerges in Nigeria

September 30, 2016 Cheryl Lang

In 2012, an estimated 122 of the 223 global cases of polio occurred in Nigeria, more than half of the cases worldwide (1,3). Worldwide efforts

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