New York City is ending its COVID vaccine mandate for public-sector workers this week, including police officers, ...

In New York, polio is back. A football player nearly died on national ... “We may not have a full picture yet,” Shah told me, ...

director of the CDC's immunization services division. Polio vaccine rates ranged from 97.6% in Louisiana and Nebraska to 77.1% in Alaska. Last summer, an unvaccinated 20-year-old New York man ...

Viruses are "shed" through people’s digestive tract – in other words, we poop them out. Wastewater tests can see if certain pathogens are present.

Testing then started in several counties throughout New York State. On Nov. 30, the CDC announced it would start testing wastewater for polio in Michigan and parts of Pennsylvania, places with ...

The Associated Press reported on stories circulating online incorrectly claiming polio stopped spreading when the pesticide ...

Social media users shared a range of false claims this week, but The Associated Press has sorted out the facts behind these ...

Associated Press writer Melissa Goldin in New York contributed this report ... after President Biden announced that the U.S.

Walter Orenstein, an Emory University professor of medicine specializing in infectious diseases who has also worked with the CDC, said he was "shocked" by the DDT claim, saying it contradicts decades ...

Over 44.2 million children under five years of age were administered anti-polio drops during a five-day nationwide immunization drive. According to official sources, to provide maximum protection ...

KARACHI: A week-long polio immunisation drive targeting 4.96 million children was launched across Karachi and Hyderabad on Monday. The campaign, part of the national immunisation days, had been ...