COXSACKIE virus was first identified during a study of five small outbreaks of poliomyelitis in New York during the summer of 1947. 1,2 The first strains were isolated from two paralyzed boys in the ...

Nigeria is fighting a rare outbreak of a vaccine-derived form of polio, says the UN's World Health Organization. It says 69 children in the north have caught the paralysing disease from others who had ...

aMathematic Modelling of Infectious Diseases Unit, UMR 2000, CNRS, Institut Pasteur, Université de Paris, Paris, France bBiodiversity and Epidemiology of Bacterial Pathogens, Institut Pasteur, ...

Background: Infants under 3 months old with fever often receive empirical antibiotic treatment. Enterovirus is one of the leading causes of infection and aseptic meningitis but is not systematically ...

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The detection of the virus in sewage suggests it is circulating in the city, Health Department officials said. By Joseph Goldstein and Sharon Otterman Polio outbreaks incited regular panics decades ...

Africa has been declared free from wild polio by the independent body, the Africa Regional Certification Commission. Polio usually affects children under five, sometimes leading to irreversible ...

POLIOVIRUS. Cebu City Mayor Edgardo Labella points to a map where the Butuanon River traverses the borders of his city and Mandaue City, after a coordination meeting with Mayor Jonas Cortes and ...

AS POLIO ERADICATION slides through the final stretch of a 30-year global campaign to wipe it out, a new worry has emerged: vaccine-derived cases of the crippling disease. Such cases are extremely ...