Vaccine-derived polio is undermining the fight to eradicate
14 June 2023. Vaccine-derived polio is undermining the fight to eradicate the virus. Wild polio has almost been eradicated, but vaccine-derived strains retain the potential to paralyse....
The latest on where Gaza's polio came from — and the race to
Sep 13, 2024 · The first wave of a massive vaccination campaign against polio is wrapping up in Gaza. The World Health Organization (WHO) says that in less than two weeks, they’ve helped …
A new polio vaccine joins the fight to vanquish the disease - Science News
Jan 8, 2021 · To stamp out vaccine-derived polio outbreaks, the World Health Organization has granted emergency use for a new polio vaccine. The oral vaccine got the go-ahead on …
Shot to Protect Against Polio and Five Other Diseases Is Approved …
Jun 30, 2023 · Adding polio protection to the existing five-component vaccine will raise its cost, but public health officials say the move is still economically advantageous.
Super-engineered vaccines created to help end polio - BBC News
Jun 14, 2023 · Scientists have "super-engineered" polio vaccines to prevent them mutating into a dangerous form that can cause outbreaks and paralysis. The oral vaccines contain weakened …
Two New Vaccines Join the Fight to Eradicate Polio
Jun 14, 2023 · Two new oral polio vaccines will help limit the amount of new polio strains and outbreaks by genetically engineering weakened polio virus in the oral vaccine to reduce …
U.S. Vaccine Hesitancy Is Nothing New. Here's How The Polio Vaccine ...
May 3, 2021 · The mass inoculation of millions of American children against polio in 1955, like the vaccinations of millions of American adults against COVID-19 in 2021, was a triumph of …
Polio is on the brink of eradication. Here's how to keep it ... - Nature
Nov 21, 2023 · Industrialized, polio-free countries use an inactivated poliovirus vaccine (IPV), which doesn’t prevent the virus infecting the body and being shed in stools, but does protect …
Novel vaccines may help quell polio outbreaks
Jun 27, 2023 · An international research team developed two oral polio vaccines that protect mice and avoid some concerns with the current vaccines. If proven effective in ongoing clinical …
Spate of polio outbreaks worldwide puts scientists on alert - Nature
Aug 22, 2022 · Cases of paralysis in the United States and Israel suggest vaccine-derived poliovirus has infected many people. The virus in widely used live oral vaccine for polio can on …