The polio virus has been detected in the sewage of Sao Paulo, reports the World Health Organization, the first time the…
The real story, unfortunately, is that polio is making a comeback in other parts of the world. This almost certainly means eradication of this disease is even further off than it had been just a year ago.
The year is young, but Pakistan has already endured a serious of setbacks in riding itself of polio. Two new…
A Pakistani health worker, left gives a polio vaccine to a child, who was displaced with his family from Pakistan’s…
Taken in isolation, the news reports that polio appears to have returned to Syria for the first time since the late 1990s, that dengue and yellow fever is showing up across the southern United States and that Texas has had its worst year ever for West Nile virus all seem like separate disease outbreaks. And they are. But taken together, they should also serve as a reminder that disease, especially infectious disease, doesn’t spread independent of human behavior – and bad behavior on the other side of the planet can kill here.
The polio virus, as it is frustratingly inclined to do, has rebounded again despite the ongoing, determined effort aimed at worldwide eradication. Like the game whack-a-mole, polio is popping up again in locations that we thought had gotten rid of it for good – like Israel or eastern Europe.
Public health emergencies arise around the world on a regular basis. Humanitarian and aid organizations need to act quickly, but…
Two more polio vaccine workers were shot dead in northwest Pakistan on Sunday. It is the latest attack on polio…
The benefit of expanding the use of vaccines worldwide seems like a no-brainer: A cheap and easy way to stop…
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