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Topic: Polio

CORAL GABLES, FLORIDA - SEPTEMBER 15: A child receives a standard immunization at Doctor Gary M. Kramer, MD, PA's Pediatric office on September 15, 2025, in Coral Gables, Florida. The Florida Department of Health recently released information on the development of rulemaking to revise immunization and document requirements for school entry. (Photo by Joe Raedle/Getty Images)

New vaccine guidance is "dangerous"

Nicole Karlis
Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) speaks during a press conference following the Republicans weekly policy luncheon on January 23, 2024 in Washington, DC. (Samuel Corum/Getty Images)

McConnell warns RFK Jr. over polio vax

Griffin Eckstein
Workers unload a shipment of polio vaccines provided with support from UNICEF to the Gaza Strip through the Karm Abu Salem crossing, also known as Kerem Shalom, at a depot belonging to Gaza's health ministry on August 25, 2024, amid the ongoing conflict in the Palestinian territory between Israel and the Palestinian militant group Hamas. (EYAD BABA/AFP via Getty Images)

Israel's war in Gaza poses polio risks

Matthew Rozsa
A baby is treated in an intensive care unit at Al-Awda Hospital as hospitals in Gaza run out of generator fuel due to Israeli attacks and blockade in Jabalia, Gaza on June 28, 2024. (Khalil Ramzi Alkahlut/Anadolu via Getty Images)

Doctors protest DNC, decry war on Gaza

Matthew Rozsa
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Children line up with bottles to get clean water on streets flooded with leaked sewage as the municipality announces the suspension of work in sewage treatment plants as they lack sufficient fuel due to Israel's attacks and blockade in Deir al Balah, Gaza on July 16, 2024. (Ashraf Amra/Anadolu via Getty Images)

Poliovirus detected in Gaza wastewater

Matthew Rozsa
A painting depicting Dr Jonas Salk in his lab working on the Polio vaccine in 1955 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. (Illustration by Ed Vebell/Getty Images)

Where did vaccine mistrust come from?

Matthew Rozsa
Diverse group of happy children getting on school bus (Getty Images/FatCamera)

What parents need to know about polio

Céline Gounder - KFF Health News
AFM disease or acute flaccid myelitis medical concept as a neurologic condition representing enterovirus or polio virus, 3D illustration (Getty Images/wildpixel)

An old virus is causing trouble anew

Troy Farah
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A registered nurse prepares to administer an intradermal monkeypox vaccine to a person at a vaccination site setup in Tropical Park by Miami-Dade County and Nomi Health on August 15, 2022 in Miami, Florida. (Joe Raedle/Getty Images)

Monkeypox and polio, on top of COVID?

D. Watkins
Anti-Polio vaccine packages from the Cutter Laboratories. (Getty Images/Bettmann)

Why polio is making a comeback

Matthew Rozsa
Enteroviruses, a group of RNA-viruses of the Picornaviridae family including Echo-viruses, Coxsackie-viruses, Rhino-viruses, Polio-virus and other (Getty Images/Dr_Microbe)

Polio remerges as possible threat

Arthur Allen - KFF Health News
Enteroviruses, a group of RNA-viruses of the Picornaviridae family including Echo-viruses, Coxsackie-viruses, Rhino-viruses, Polio-virus and other (Getty Images/Dr_Microbe)

How polio crept back into the U.S.

Robin Fields - ProPublica
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Sick girl lying on bed in ICU during COVID-19 (Getty Images/Morsa Images)

Children's COVID-19 cases skyrocket

Matthew Rozsa
Time lost in the COVID-19 pandemic year (Getty Images)

A history of how pandemics change us

Matthew Rozsa
Dr. Jonas Salk stands in the University of Pittsburgh laboratory in which he developed a vaccine for polio. | Dr. Albert Bruce Sabin, of the University of Cincinnati College of Medicine, holds a vial containing a newly developed oral polio vaccine. (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

The vaccine debate from 1961

Arup K. Chakraborty, Andrey S. Shaw
Sandra Rodriguez, 63, receives a COVID-19 vaccination from Yaquelin De La Cruz at the Research Centers of America (RCA) in Hollywood, Florida, on August 13, 2020. - So-called phase three vaccine clinical trials, in which thousands of people take part in the final stages, are gaining traction. (CHANDAN KHANNA/AFP via Getty Images)

Vaccinations, polio and COVID-19

Terri Langston - The Globalist
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In this photo taken on Saturday, Nov. 1, 2014, a woman prisoner suspected of suffering from the Ebola virus, from Tubmanburg central prison, is pushed in a wheelchair towards a medical vehicle, to be taken to an Ebola treatment center in Monrovia, Liberia. The Ebola outbreak has spawned a “silent killer,” experts say: hidden cases of malaria, pneumonia, typhoid and the like that are going untreated because people in the countries hardest hit by Ebola either cannot find an open clinic or are too afraid to go to one. (AP Photo/ Abbas Dulleh) (AP)

New disease stalls efforts to fight old

Lynne Peeples - Undark
Braden Scott uses a device to support his left arm as he practices on the piano in Tomball, Texas on Friday, March 29, 2019. Braden was diagnosed with the syndrome called acute flaccid myelitis, or AFM, in 2016 and was paralyzed almost completely. (AP/David J. Phillip)

Mysterious polio-like virus alarming CDC

Nicole Karlis
Dr. Jonas Salk in his lab in Pittsburgh, Pa., Oct. 7, 1954. (AP)

Science poisoned Jonas Salk

Charlotte Jacobs
Dania Ahmed, 4, receives a polio vaccine at a health center in Baghdad, Iraq, Thursday, April 10, 2014.(AP Photo/Khalid Mohammed)

Lindsay Abrams
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(Global Polio Eradication Initiative)

Lindsay Abrams
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Lindsay Abrams
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