By NewsDesk   @bactiman63 Malaysia health officials are reporting a confirmed polio case in a three-month-old boy from Tuaran, Sabah who had a fever followed by a weak limb and was admitted to the intensive...

The National Department of Health of Papua New Guinea reported this week on two additional polio cases (circulating vaccine-derived poliovirus type 1–cVDPV1), bringing the total to six polio cases...

The news concerning worldwide polio has been quiet during the first several weeks of 2016; however, the first wild poliovirus type 1 (WPV1) and circulating vaccine-derived poliovirus type 1 (cVDPV1)...

Two additional cases of circulating vaccine-derived poliovirus type 1 (cVDPV1) have been reported from the Lao People’s Democratic Republic (PDR), Laos, according to UN health officials. This brings...

Health authorities in the Lao People’s Democratic Republic (PDR) have reported on a case of circulating vaccine-derived poliovirus type 1 (cVDPV1) in a child from the district of Bolikhan, in Bolikhamxay...

What are Vaccine-derived polioviruses (VDPVs)? The Global Polio Eradication Initiative  defines it as follows: The oral polio vaccine contains a live, attenuated (weakened) vaccine-virus. When a child...

With the reports of an additional three cases of circulating vaccine-derived poliovirus type 1 (cVDPV1), this brings the total cases to eight in 2015 in Madagascar. The Global Polio Eradication Initiative...