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From 60% of global cases to zero: India celebrates 15-year milestone in polio eliminationIndia achieved a historic milestone, completing 15 years without a wild poliovirus case. This success highlights strong political will and ...- 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...
- Pakistan could be next polio-free nation, says WHOAttempts to eradicate the disease in Pakistan have been seriously hampered by the targeting of vaccination teams in recent years by militan...
- 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...
- All about the latest polio vaccine scareFew batches of vaccines of a particular manufacturer in three states have been found contaminated.
- After India, other South East Asian countries opting for fractional doses of IPV: WHOWHO said that India became the first country globally to introduce fractional doses of IPV in childhood immunisation programme in eight sta...
- Government allays concerns on polio; says India remains polio-freeHealth Ministry said the detected polio virus strain, which was was found in a sewage sample collected near the Secunderabad railway statio...
- 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.
- 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.
- Polio scare: 200 samples test positive for polio-like symptoms from tehsils in UPA mere year after the country was declared polio free, more than 200 samples have tested positive to polio-like symptoms from tehsils in UP.
- 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...
- SAARC nations pledge to free region of AIDS by 2030Nadda said another important aspect of the declaration was that the region decided to become polio free and eradicate it completely.
- President Pranab Mukherjee launches Pulse Polio Immunization ProgrammeLauding the efforts of volunteers and supervisors, Health Minister J P Nadda said that there has been no case of wild polio since January 1...
- Pakistan accounts for 80 per cent of polio cases globally: WHOThe World Health Organisation in its progress report held Pakistan responsible for failing to curb the surge in polio cases.
- India warns Pakistan visa applicants over fake polio certificatesThe Indian High Commission issued a statement yesterday warning that such visa applications would be rejected and the applicants permanentl...
- '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.
- 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...
- India taken off polio endemic list by WHOIndia, 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...
- Panacea Biotec, an Indian pharma firm launches polio vaccine POLPROTEC in NigeriaTo make the vaccine easily available, Panacea Biotec is partnering Emzor pharma which has a strong footprint across Nigeria.
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