The United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) and the World Health Organization (WHO) said the risk of children getting vaccine derived polio...

Few batches of vaccines of a particular manufacturer in three states have been found contaminated.

At least three batches of polio vaccines containing 1.5 lakh vials have been found contaminated with type 2 polio virus. The health ministr...

WHO said that India became the first country globally to introduce fractional doses of IPV in childhood immunisation programme in eight sta...

Health Ministry said the detected polio virus strain, which was was found in a sewage sample collected near the Secunderabad railway statio...

Sanofi Pasteur, the vaccines division of Sanofi, today announced launch of ShanIPV, an injectable inactivated polio vaccine (IPV).

No laxity has been reported in the polio eradication program after India was declared 'polio free' and the government has taken cognisance.

Nadda said another important aspect of the declaration was that the region decided to become polio free and eradicate it completely.

Lauding the efforts of volunteers and supervisors, Health Minister J P Nadda said that there has been no case of wild polio since January 1...

The Indian High Commission issued a statement yesterday warning that such visa applications would be rejected and the applicants permanentl...

The last new case of polio in India was reported three years ago and the country can now be declared polio-free.

Global superstar and UNICEF's Goodwill Ambassador for Polio eradication for almost a decade, Amitabh is delighted with the news.

"Not a single polio case has been reported in UP in the last three years," said CM Akhilesh Yadav who also urged officials to sustain the m...

Earlier this year, WHO had removed India from the list of polio-endemic countries. If no fresh case is reported till 2014, the country will...

Ghulam Nabi Azad said the lessons learnt from success of polio campaign could help eliminate measles-related child deaths and neonatal teta...

India, which has been polio-free for over a year now, was today taken off the list of polio endemic countries by the World Health Organisat...

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.