The global polio eradication program faces setbacks in Pakistan and Afghanistan. Mismanagement, falsified records, and unqualified staff pl...

The U.N. health agency and partners are launching a campaign to vaccinate 640,000 Palestinian children in Gaza against polio amid a devasta...

Bharat Biotech on Tuesday said it has collaborated with the Netherlands-based Bilthoven Biologicals B.V, a wholly-owned arm of Serum Instit...

A nationwide three-day pulse polio vaccination drive targeting children aged 0 to 5 is underway. Starting on Sunday, mobile teams, transit ...

The move came after the findings of circulating poliovirus in five counties in New York. According to state health authorities, this step w...

Now, in a surprising twist in the decades-long effort to eradicate the virus, authorities in Jerusalem, New York and London have discovered...

On Friday, health officials were investigating the case, interviewing immediate family members of the patient and urging immunizations for ...

"Today, in spite of the fact that virtually all the countries in the world have eradicated polio, two of our neighbouring countries still h...

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.

In April 2016, after due recommendations from Global Polio Eradication Initiative, India decided to switch from the trivalent to bivalent v...

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

IPV is to be given as an additional dose at 14th week along with DPT3 and Oral Polio Vaccine (OPV3), Health Minister JP Nadda said.

India announced it would be mandatory for all persons - adults or children - travelling to the country from Pakistan to take an Oral Polio ...

Drug firm Panacea Biotec today said it has received an order worth Rs 187.61 crore from the government to supply polio vaccines till May 20...

A five-month-old child from the Murshidabad district of West Bengal has got infected with the virus after taking the oral polio vaccine.

Drug firm Panacea Biotec today said it has withdrawn its oral polio vaccine from the World Health Organisation's list of pre-qualified vacc...