Polio

  • Rotary Celebrates India's First Polio-free Year, but Cautions the Job is Not Yet Finished
    Rotary members worldwide are cautiously celebrating a major milestone in the global effort to eradicate the crippling disease polio. India, until recently an epicenter of the wild poliovirus, has gone a full calendar year without recording a new case. If all ongoing testing ...More
    4 weeks ago
    Posted in News
  • Live Virus Used in Polio Vaccine Can Evolve and Infect, Researcher Warns
    Health professionals and researchers across the globe believe they are on the verge of eradicating polio, a devastating virus which can lead to paralysis and death. Despite successful eradication in most countries, there are still four countries where the virus is ...More
    November 9, 2011
    Posted in News, Infections & Pathogens
  • World Polio Day: Rotary Leads Final Push to 'End Polio Now'
    In recognition of World Polio Day today, Rotary clubs are ramping up their efforts to raise the funds and awareness needed to eradicate the crippling disease. This year, significant progress has been made against polio. Polio cases worldwide decreased more than 40 percent ...More
    October 24, 2011
    Posted in News, Infections & Pathogens
  • Economic Benefits of Global Polio Eradication Estimated at $40-50 Billion
    A new study released today estimates that the global initiative to eradicate polio could provide net benefits of at least US$40-50 billion if transmission of wild polioviruses is interrupted within the next five years. The study provides the first rigorous evaluation of the ...More
    November 22, 2010
    Posted in News
  • Experts Say Polio Outbreak in Tajikistan is Cause for Alarm
    The rapidly growing polio outbreak in Tajikistan raises serious concerns that the disease could spread to other regions in the world, states an editorial in the Canadian Medical Association Journal (CMAJ). It is imperative that health agencies attempt to limit further ...More
    June 23, 2010
    Posted in News
  • Conference on Vaccine Research to Highlight 40-Year Progress
    Scientists at the 13th annual Conference on Vaccine Research (ACVR), sponsored by the National Foundation for Infectious Diseases (NFID), will reflect on the remarkable growth of vaccine biotechnology in the last several decades and focus on the growing number of ...More
    April 26, 2010
    Posted in News
  • Childhood Vaccination Gaps Narrowing in U.S.
    About three-quarters of U.S. children received recommended vaccinations in 2008, up from about half in 2000, reports a new study from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).“The goal of the study was to look at trends in vaccination disparities over the ...More
    January 6, 2010
    Posted in News
  • Common Viral Infection in Infants May Persist Long-term in the CNS
    A new study suggests that coxsackievirus, a significant human pathogen that commonly infects the central nervous system of newborns, may persist in the body as a low-level, long-term infection causing ongoing inflammatory lesions. This discovery disputes previous beliefs ...More
    September 9, 2009
    Posted in News
  • Vaccines Are for Adults, Too: Are Your Shots Up to Date?
    Routine vaccination of children has helped eliminate or greatly reduce many devastating illnesses, including measles, polio, whooping cough and diphtheria. But vaccinations are not just for children, they’re for adults, too. For some adults, the news that they need to ...More
    April 28, 2009
    Posted in News
  • Mathematical Models of Adaptive Immunity
    More than 5 million people die every year from infectious diseases, despite the availability of numerous antibiotics and vaccines. The discovery of penicillin to treat bacterial infections, along with the development of vaccines for previously incurable virus diseases such ...More
    December 11, 2008
    Posted in News
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