Tag: Polio

Agency says information could be used to target vaccination efforts and rapidly increase coverage if needed

Emergency declaration will allow EMS workers, midwives, and pharmacists to administer polio vaccine

Discovery of poliovirus in sewage samples suggests there is already community transmission of the virus

Unvaccinated adult in Rockland County last month became the first person known to be infected with polio in the United States in a decade

There is little risk to the public, officials stress, but those who are not fully vaccinated against poliovirus are urged to get their shots

There were 1,226 cases of polio worldwide in 2020, compared with 138 in 2018

Sizes of the outbreaks in the U.S. in 2020 likely reduced by nonpharmaceutical interventions related to COVID-19, such as social distancing