Tag: polio
Polio in New York – an infectious disease doctor explains this...
William Petri, University of Virginia
The first case of polio in the U.S. since 2013 was announced by New...
Medicine is an imperfect science – but you can still trust...
Venktesh Ramnath, University of California San Diego
The Conversation is running a series of dispatches from clinicians and researchers...
Shutting down school vaccine clinics doesn’t protect minors – it hurts...
Katherine A. Foss, Middle Tennessee State University
A 1918 newspaper article captures public attitudes toward a typhoid vaccine clinic...
A newly designed vaccine may help stamp out remaining polio cases...
Patricia L. Foster, Indiana University
Public health organizations around the world have been fighting for global eradication of polio since 1988. Through massive vaccination efforts,...
Acute flaccid myelitis: What is the polio-like illness paralyzing US children?
Jay Desai, University of Southern California
I experienced déjà vu when I took care of a child with acute flaccid myelitis in 2014, one of...
Sewage surveillance is the next frontier in the fight against polio
Marisa Eisenberg, University of Michigan; Andrew Brouwer, University of Michigan, and Joseph Eisenberg, University of Michigan
The world is at the brink of eradicating polio....
Africa is within reach of being declared a polio free region
Charles Wiysonge
, Stellenbosch University
More than 20 years after North and South America eliminated the threat of polio, sub-Saharan Africa is finally on the brink...
EXPLORING NATURE
The chickadee in the snowbank: A ‘canary in the coal mine’...
Benjamin Sonnenberg, University of Nevada, Reno
Wet snow pelts my face and pulls against my skis as I climb...
