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Bharat Biotech, Bilthoven Biologicals collaborate for oral polio vaccines production, supplyBharat Biotech on Tuesday said it has collaborated with the Netherlands-based Bilthoven Biologicals B.V, a wholly-owned arm of Serum Instit...
India has tremendous capacity in eradicating coronavirus pandemic: WHOThe executive director of the World Health Organisation (WHO), Michael Ryan, said India, the world's second most populous country, has a tr...
Sanofi Pasteur launches injectable inactivated polio vaccineSanofi Pasteur, the vaccines division of Sanofi, today announced launch of ShanIPV, an injectable inactivated polio vaccine (IPV).
No laxity in polio eradication program: GovernmentNo laxity has been reported in the polio eradication program after India was declared 'polio free' and the government has taken cognisance.
India risks importing polio from Pakistan, Afghanistan: GovernmentIndia runs a high risk of importing polio from its key neighbours Afghanistan and Pakistan which have a high polio burden, the government t...
Polio eradication: India assures Pakistan of technical supportA similar technical support was also committed to Afghanistan for supporting polio eradication programme, besides providing micro level pla...
'India's victory important milestone in eliminating polio'The last new case of polio in India was reported three years ago and the country can now be declared polio-free.
Proud of India being declared polio-free: Amitabh BachchanGlobal superstar and UNICEF's Goodwill Ambassador for Polio eradication for almost a decade, Amitabh is delighted with the news.
Bill Gates lauds India's accomplishment in polio campaignMicrosoft Chairman Bill Gates has described India's accomplishment in eradicating polio as the "most impressive global health success" he h...
India gearing up to be declared polio free by 2014Earlier this year, WHO had removed India from the list of polio-endemic countries. If no fresh case is reported till 2014, the country will...
- Panacea Biotec, an Indian pharma firm launches polio vaccine POLPROTEC in Nigeria
To make the vaccine easily available, Panacea Biotec is partnering Emzor pharma which has a strong footprint across Nigeria.
- Indian pharma firm 'Panacea Biotec' launches drug against polio in Nigeria
A leading Indian pharmaceutical company has launched a polio vaccine, POLPROTEC in Nigeria to help combat the spread of polio in Africa's t...
- India on vigil for new enemy from LoC: Poliovirus
Pakistan, reported over 190 cases last year, and also exported the crippling virus to China that was polio-free for 20 years.
- Amitabh Bachchan angry young man act effects a dip in polio cases
According to UNICEF, only one case of polio was reported in India this year, as against 41 cases last year. In 2009, there were 741 cases.
- India polio-free? No case since January 13
India has not reported a single polio case in over 200 days. The country's only polio case reported this year was on January 13 from West B...
- India can achieve zero transmission of polio in 2 yrs: Gates
India could see zero transmission of the crippling polio virus in the next two years, according to business magnate turned philanthropist B...
- Africa, Bangladesh better than India in immunisation: Bill Gates
India’s inability to stamp out polio has raised serious fears that the virus causing the crippling disease might never be eradicated.
- Gates foundation pledges $630 mn to fight polio in India
The international community, led by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation today pledged over USD 630 million to fight polio in India over t...
- Bill Gates meets Ramadoss, discusses polio eradication
Bill Gates met Union Health Minister Anbumani Ramadoss and discussed the polio eradication programme in the country for which his foundatio...
- Team India bat for Polio eradication
Joining the campaign for polio eradication in the country, Indian cricket team contributed to UNICEF's Bowl Out Polio campaign by presentin...