A polio-like virus has afflicted more than 500 children in the US in the past five years. A doctor who has treated children with the disease explains the symptoms.
Academic rigor, journalistic flair
Articles on Polio
Displaying 1 - 20 of 34 articles
Did you ever consider that human beings might have a breeding season? Birth seasonality exists – and has interesting implications for childhood disease outbreaks.
The global target to eradicate polio is being missed because a number of countries are struggling to reach high vaccine coverage.
Polio can be circulating through a community long before anyone is paralyzed. Monitoring sewage for the virus lets public health officials short-circuit this 'silent transmission.'
Vaccines have long been considered safe, but many people still believe they are not. A new study shows that people who think they know more than medical experts are more likely to believe that vaccine are not safe.
Pakistan had only eight new diagnoses of polio in 2017. The virus' days look numbered – but health workers have their work cut out for them to eradicate the devastating disease once and for all.
Social media rumours are putting Nigeria's vaccination campaigns at risk.
Current plans to eradicate polio mean keeping the virus alive – and risk restarting the epidemic.
Vaccination is not to be taken for granted.
Vaccinating against an infectious disease can stop once the threat of future transmission is deemed sufficiently low.
More than 788 health facilities have been destroyed in parts of North-Eastern Nigeria captured by Boko Haram insurgents, crippling health services in the area.
You may not know anyone with an infectious disease covered by the immunizations on the 2017 list of recommended vaccines. Here's why that doesn't matter, and why children still need to be protected.
A new polio outbreak in Nigeria has hampered the country's efforts to be declared polio free by 2017.
Every year hundreds of thousands of children die from vaccine-preventable diseases. Africa leaders could change this if they improved vaccination efforts.
Despite Nigeria's success in eradicating polio, it is struggling to get a grip on mother and child vaccinations.
As more vaccines have been developed, the challenge of delivering them with minimal pain and number of visits to the doctor has increased. Needle-free vaccinations might help.
Researchers are piloting a smartphone app to collect better information about who is getting vaccinated and to design better incentives for health workers on vaccination drives.
Recent polio outbreaks in Ukraine and Mali, caused by a vaccine-derived form of poliovirus, don't mean the vaccine isn't working. On the contrary, they are a reminder to keep up vaccination rates.
Eradicating the last 1% of polio cases in the world requires an endgame plan centred on immunisation and surveillance.
The positive impact of the polio eradication initiatives on the continent can be felt across the health sector in other health programmes.
Top contributors
-
Professor of International Health, Burnet Institute
-
Director, Cochrane South Africa, South African Medical Research Council
-
Fellow, Nigerian Academy of Science
-
Professor of Public Health, University of Melbourne
-
School of Public Health, Monash University
-
Senior Lecturer, School of Computing and Information Systems, and Senior Research Fellow, Centre for Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Melbourne School of Population and Global Health, University of Melbourne
-
Masters of Public Health graduate, Harvard University
-
Australian Medical Doctor; Fellow in Global Health & NCDs, University of Copenhagen
-
Professor of Bioethics and Director of VELiM, University of Sydney
-
Professor of Global Biosecurity, NHMRC Principal Research Fellow, Head, Biosecurity Program, UNSW
-
Lecturer of Economics, University of Nottingham
-
Fellow, Royal College of Pathologists, Royal College of Pathologists
-
Bioinformatician and Data Analyst., King's College London
-
Professor of Public Health, Monash University
-
Resident Physician at St Mary Mercy Hospital and Research Scientist for the Exposure Research Laboratory, University of Michigan
