Tag: Polio

  • Health

    Polio is back in the spotlight

    News reports about polio’s return worry parents. An expert explains the two types of poliovirus and the importance of herd immunity.

    a Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) scientist, concentrating poliovirus from sewage.
  • Science & Tech

    First video of viruses assembling

    For the first time, Harvard researchers have captured images of individual viruses forming, offering a real-time view into the kinetics of viral assembly.

    A type 3 poliovirus capsid coloured by chains
  • Health

    The fading of polio

    Faculty and student panel examines efforts to make polio the second human disease to be eradicated during the “Every Last Child” event at Radcliffe.

  • Health

    Triumphs against smallpox, polio, AIDS

    Harvard researchers have been at the forefront of many battles against devastating diseases, leading pivotal breakthroughs against scourges from 1800 to the present.

  • Campus & Community

    Gates on giving, getting, sharing

    In a visit to Harvard, Microsoft’s Gates says that top minds need to focus on critical social problems — to find solutions.

  • Health

    Eradicating polio better option than control

    Concerns about the high perceived costs of eradicating the relatively low number of polio cases worldwide have led to recent suggestions that it is time to shift from a goal of eradication to control: abandoning eradication and allowing wild poliovirus to continue to circulate, which proponents of control believe can sustain the low number of…