Pakistan records three more poliovirus cases; countrywide tally reaches 17Three new poliovirus cases were reported in Pakistan, bringing the 2025 total to 17, with 10 from Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. The cases were found ...
Polio continues to cripple Pakistan as virus yet again detected across 20 sewage samplesPakistan faces a polio challenge. Poliovirus is found in sewage samples from various districts, including Islamabad. Sindh has the highest ...
Pakistan reports confirmed 50th polio caseAccording to NEOC, the National Reference Lab identified the latest case involving a 20-month-old girl from Tank district in Khyber Pakhtun...
Pakistan: Four samples collected from four cities tests positive for Wild Poliovirus 1Environmental samples collected from four cities in Pakistan, including Karachi and Peshawar, have tested positive for Wild Poliovirus 1 (W...
New York declares 'state of emergency' amid poliovirus evidence. Check out detailsThe move came after the findings of circulating poliovirus in five counties in New York. According to state health authorities, this step w...
Rare Case of Polio Prompts Alarm, Urgent Investigation in New YorkOn Friday, health officials were investigating the case, interviewing immediate family members of the patient and urging immunizations for ...
89 lakh kids below 5 years given polio drops across India on 'Polio Ravivar': Health ministry"The booth activity will be followed by house-to-house surveillance (mop-up rounds) over the next two to five days to identify and vaccinat...
India remains polio free, all vaccines used in government immunisation prog safe: UNICEF, WHOThe United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) and the World Health Organization (WHO) said the risk of children getting vaccine derived polio...
President Ram Nath Kovind launches Pulse Polio programme for 2018Over 17 crore children below five years across the country will be given polio drops as part of the Government of India's drive.
Novel patch can better deliver polio vaccines: StudyKendall said,"ease of administration, coupled with dose reduction observed in this study suggests that the Nanopatch could facilitate inexp...
Risk of importation of poliovirus still persists: WHO officialOn January 13, WHO South-East Asia Region completed five years without any case of wild poliovirus.
Universal Immunisation Programme one of the largest world health projects : Nagaland minister P Longon"With the introduction of IPV and Pentavalent vaccine a child will be provided added protection against poliovirus and haemophilus influenz...
Pakistan breaks its own record of maximum polio cases a yearA health official from said that out of eight new cases, six are from tribal areas and adjacent Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa province, and one each f...
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...
- Bill Gates congratulates Nitish Kumar
Bill Gates of Bill and Melinda Gates foundation has congratulated Bihar Chief Minister for the state having no report of wild poliovirus.
- 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.
- Polio strain from Pakistan a global threat: WHO
Pakistan is dubbed as the "epicentre" of global terrorism. Now, the terror-affected country is the hotbed of a deadly strain of polio which...