Poliovirus

A child is given an oral vaccine.

A newly designed vaccine may help stamp out remaining polio cases worldwide

Health & Medicine

Despite the amount of lives saved by the Sabin polio vaccine, in rare cases, illnesses can still occur. New research is looking to make the vaccine even safer.

A woman wearing a scarf over her face stands by a wall carrying a polio vaccination kit box in Pakistan

Sewage surveillance is key in the fight against polio

Health & Medicine
This color-coded image shows the surface view of enterovirus D68. Red regions are the highest peaks, and the lowest portions are blue. In the black-and-white background are actual electron microscopy images of the EV-D68 virus.

Why have some American kids been paralyzed for a year? Doctors are trying to find out.

Medicine