Finding Polio in Wastewater Samples
What to know after health experts found polio virus in wastewater samples in New York, London, and Jerusalem.
polio vaccines
Milestones Towards the Eradication of Polio
Review all of the milestones on the long road to the eradication of polio, a goal we are close to reaching.
cVDPV
Circulating vaccine-derived polio virus or cVDPV are outbreaks of polio that are actually caused by the polio vaccine.
Jonas Salk
Dr. Jonas Salk developed the first polio vaccine in 1955, an inactivated vaccine that we still use today.