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 administer more than...
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 November 13.
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 live polio...
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 reversion to dangerous forms.
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 science. But the...
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 against...
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 trials, the novel vaccines hold promise for eradicating polio from the planet.
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 rare occasions...