Vaccines virtually wiped out long-feared scourges such as polio and measles and drastically reduced the toll of many others.

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TAIPEI (Taiwan News) — Taiwan’s Centers for Disease Control announced Tuesday that severe enterovirus infections, particularly echovirus 11, continue to pose a serious threat to newborns. Last week, ...

Before vaccines and public health triumphs, polio was the thing that kept parents up at night. During its peak from 1948 to 1955, the disease swept through towns across America, hitting children ...

By Prince Acquah Cape Coast, June 17, GNA – The Central Regional Health Directorate has appealed to the media in the region to intensify advocacy for the Inactivated Polio Vaccine Two (IPV2) to ...

Enterovirus surveillance -United States, 2002-2004. MMWR Morb Mortal Wkly Rep. 2006; 55 (6): 153-6. 28 Fernandez-Garcia MD, Kebe O, Fall AD, Ndiaye K. Identification and molecular characterization of ...

AFM is caused by a virus that’s a cousin of the polio virus, earning it the nickname “the new polio.” Journalist and physician Eli Cahan joins Host Flora Lichtman to explain what doctors have been ...

More recently, researchers have found another aspect of the illness that’s a historical throwback. Enterovirus D-68 (EVD-68), which is a cousin of the enterovirus that causes polio, emerged as the ...