polio

The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation says it is committing $1.2 billion to efforts aimed at ending polio worldwide.

Polio viruses recently found in Jerusalem, New York and London were mutated versions of viruses that first originated in vaccines meant to stamp out the paralytic disease.

Coronavirus, monkeypox and polio are all making headlines lately. To learn more about each, we brought in Dr. Bob Lahita from St. Joseph’s University Hospital in Paterson, NJ.

New York has one confirmed polio case but health officials say wastewater surveillance indicates there may be hundreds of people infected. While most Americans are vaccinated against polio, experts say the case should serve as a wake-up call to those who aren’t. Here’s what you need to know.

There are new concerns about the potential spread of polio in New York, with the state health commissioner saying there could be “hundreds” of people infected as new evidence shows the virus has been found in samples from multiple counties. The state health department, which launched wastewater surveillance earlier this month after officials announced the first confirmed U.S. polio...

Polio is the state of paralysis caused by the highly contagious poliovirus. Here’s what you need to know to protect your family.

A New York individual has been diagnosed with polio, in what may be the first U.S. case of the dreaded disease in decades.

Authorities are investigating the spread of poliovirus found in London sewage samples.

First lady Jill Biden visited a McLean elementary school to encourage COVID-19 vaccinations for children. News4’s Derrick Ward reports.

For some, getting the coronavirus vaccine this year brought back memories of other historic vaccination moments.

As the nation is weeks into its campaign to vaccinate against the coronavirus, people who lived through fear of polio recall the environment of the time.

Four African countries have reported new cases of polio linked to the oral vaccine, as global health numbers show there are now more children being paralyzed by viruses originating in vaccines than in the wild. In a report late last week, the World Health Organization and partners noted nine new polio cases caused by the vaccine in Nigeria, Congo, Central...

Dr. Anthony Fauci from the National Institutes of Health says they are unsure what is causing a mysterious illness that is paralyzing children. Doreen Gentzler reports.

Health officials are reporting a jump in cases of a rare paralyzing illness in children, and say it seems to be following an every-other-year pattern. At least 62 confirmed cases have been reported in 22 states this year, and an additional 65 illnesses in those states are being investigated. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported the latest numbers...

Five possible cases of a rare, polio-like illness are under investigation in Maryland, a state Department of Health spokesperson confirmed to NBC4.

Johns Hopkins University says it will honor Henrietta Lacks, the African-American woman whose cancer cells continue to have an impact on medicine more than 60 years after they were taken without her consent.

How do local school districts handle immunization requirements? See our list of laws, free clinics and policies for many D.C.-area school districts.

A portrait of Henrietta Lacks, whose cells were taken without her consent and widely used in groundbreaking research, will be installed at the Smithsonian’s National Portrait Gallery.

Three-year-old Carter Roberts was playful, healthy and active until he became one of over four dozen people in the United States diagnosed with acute flaccid myelitis, or AFM, NBC News reported. He was unable to move his arms or legs, and “doctors were working really hard to try and figure out what was going on,” said his mother, Robin Roberts....

Three-year-old Carter Roberts was playful, healthy and active until he became one of over four dozen people in the United States diagnosed with acute flaccid myelitis, or AFM, NBC News reported. He was unable to move his arms or legs, and “doctors were working really hard to try and figure out what was going on,” said his mother, Robin Roberts....