All poliovirus articles
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NewsEvery dose counts: Safeguarding the success of vaccination in Europe
Marking European Immunization Week (EIW) 2025, a new report highlights the risks of suboptimal vaccination coverage in Europe and publishes a set of operational tools that public health authorities can use to improve vaccination acceptance and uptake.
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NewsUrgent action needed to keep Europe polio-free, warn heads of ECDC and WHO Europe
An unusually high amount of poliovirus detections in several European countries in recent months has underscored the importance of keeping Europe polio-free.
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NewsReport: Detections of poliovirus in sewage samples require enhanced routine and catch-up vaccination and increased surveillance
Four countries in the EU/EEA and the United Kingdom have reported detections of circulating vaccine-derived poliovirus type 2 (cVDPV2) in sewage samples, the first time cVDPV2 has been detected in EU/EEA countries from environmental surveillance.
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NewsBioengineer awarded $3.4M for project to end polio
Bioengineer Kevin McHugh has been awarded $3.4 million for a project to incorporate protection against poliomyelitis into the combination vaccine that protects against five common and dangerous childhood diseases.
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NewsFirst phase of polio campaign concludes successfully in Gaza
More than 187,000 children under ten years of age were vaccinated with novel oral polio vaccine type 2 (nOPV2) in central Gaza during the first phase of a two-round polio vaccination campaign, conducted between 1–3 September 2024.
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NewsWHO pays tribute to polio-eradication leader Aidan O’Leary
The Director-General General of the World Health Organization has led tributes following the sudden death of Aidan O’Leary, who was leading global efforts to eradicate polio. Geneva-based Aidan O’Leary, the director of the WHO’s Polio Eradication Programme since 2021, died suddenly while on a family holiday on ...
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NewsScientists prioritize 6 key pathogens for wastewater surveillance ahead of the Paris 2024 Olympic and Paralympic Games
French health authority researchers have identified priority pathogens that could be suitable for wastewater surveillance (WWS) during the Paris 2024 Olympic and Paralympic Games taking place from 26 July to 11 August and 28 August to 8 September.
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OpinionNew RSV vaccines on the way - so what do we do about vaccine hesitancy?
Not one, but two promising new vaccines are likely to be introduced to the UK, yet routine childhood vaccination rates have been decreasing for ‘old’ diseases like measles and polio - what’s going on?
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NewsAdvanced cryo-electron microscope reveals how poliovirus rearranges human cells
Researchers at Umeå University, Sweden, have shone a light on how poliovirus behaves when it takes over an infected cell and tricks the cell into producing new virus particles.