Polio

Kindergarten vaccine coverage has been on a steady decline since the 2019-2020 school year, and fewer parents felt it was important for their teens to receive all recommended vaccines in 2023 compared with 2021.

The world’s response to outbreaks of circulating vaccine-derived polio has slowed over the past decade, according to finding presented at the CDC’s Annual Epidemic Intelligence Service Conference.

Routine vaccination rates among kindergartners in the United States remained lower than pre-pandemic levels last school year as vaccine exemptions increased to an all-time high, according to data published Thursday by the CDC.

NEW YORK — In this video from the Infectious Diseases in Children Symposium, Yvonne A. Maldonado, MD, discusses three emerging or reemerging infectious diseases: polio, monkeypox and highly pathogenic avian influenza virus.

Health officials on Thursday reported the detection of a case of vaccine-derived polio in a resident of Rockland County, New York, which is north of New York City.

Mozambique became the second African country this year to report a case of wild poliovirus after confirming that a child who began experiencing onset of paralysis in March had contracted the disease.

Malawi this week declared an outbreak of polio after detecting a case of imported wild poliovirus in a young child, WHO said — the first case of wild poliovirus reported in Africa in more than 5 years.

The CDC recently announced changes to its quarantine guidance. The agency now recommends that asymptomatic people with COVID-19 isolate for 5 days, followed by 5 days of mask wearing around others.

Globally, more than 17 million children did not receive the first dose of a vaccine against diphtheria, tetanus and pertussis in 2020 as coverage fell to levels not seen in 14 years, researchers reported in MMWR.

Oral polio vaccine campaigns have a larger impact on all-cause child mortality than previous research suggested, according to a study conducted in West Africa.