North Carolina health leaders are considering whether to add polio to its wastewater surveillance. It comes after New York leaders reported the first U.S. polio case in nearly a decade. New York ...

BOB: THE WASTEWATER CAN BE AN EARLY SIGN OF PROBLEMS. WHILE POLIO IS NOT CONSIDERED A THREAT IN THE UNITED STATES, THE CITY MANAGER IN ALTAMONTE SPRINGS SAID THEY SHOULD BE ABLE TO TEST FOR IT.

Health Cabinet Secretary Aden Duale after he commissioned a state-of-the-art Expanded Polio Laboratory.[Courtesy] The Kenya Medical Research Institute (KEMRI) has commissioned a state-of-the-art ...

New research supported by the Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) has shown that the time to detect polio can be halved using a technique called Direct molecular Detection and ...