The percentage of school-aged American children who’ve received routine childhood vaccines, while still high, has dropped again during the past school year, a new government report says. The report, released Thursday by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), looked at the coverage rates of four vaccines mandated by state and local school…

NEW YORK—Philadelphia and Oakland County, Michigan, are joining the small list of U.S. localities that are looking for signs of polio infections in sewage, U.S. health officials said Wednesday. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) said the communities will test for polio in sewage for at least four months. Communities in New York state…

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Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation said on Sunday that it will commit $1.2 billion to support efforts to end all forms of polio globally. Polio is a highly infectious disease spread mainly through contamination by fecal matter, used to kill and paralyze thousands of children annually. Governments and foundations aim to end polio in Pakistan…

There is a fresh call for Australia to create a national polio surveillance network as Victoria increases its wastewater testing. UNICEF Australia’s senior vaccine advisor Chris Maher says the building blocks for a national program are already in place. Victoria’s Chief Health Officer Brett Sutton said on Tuesday the state has stepped up wastewater testing…

New York Gov. Kathy Hochul declared a state of disaster on Friday after samples of the polio virus were found in wastewater in three counties near New York City. Samples of the virus were detected in wastewater obtained in Orange, Rockland, and Sullivan counties every month since April, indicating polio was present in the state…

Authorities in New York City on Friday said polio has been detected in New York City’s sewage, suggesting there is local transmission of the virus. Describing the findings as concerning, New York State Health Commissioner Dr. Mary Bassett said that local and federal health officials are assessing the situation. “For every one case of paralytic polio…

Rare, locally transmitted poliovirus was detected in seven wastewater samples of Orange and Rockland counties in New York, according to an Aug. 4 press release by the New York State Department of Health. The virus was genetically linked to a recent polio case in Rockland County, suggesting evidence of local transmission, according to an analysis…

WASHINGTON—The polio virus was present in wastewater in a New York City suburb a month before health officials there announced a confirmed case of the disease last month, state health officials said on Monday. The discovery of the disease from wastewater samples collected in June means the virus was present in the community before the…

DERA ISMAIL KHAN, Pakistan—Pakistan’s polio count for the year has risen to 13 with one case reported on Friday as the South Asian nation looks to contain a disease mostly eradicated elsewhere, officials said. The latest case was found in the northwest province of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP) and involved an 18-month-old boy reported to be…