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...

On January 13, WHO South-East Asia Region completed five years without any case of wild poliovirus.

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.

A mere year after the country was declared polio free, more than 200 samples have tested positive to polio-like symptoms from tehsils in UP.

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...

Even as WHO declared India polio free since last year, the state government today launched the second phase of its polio immunisation progr...

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.

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...

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...

A significant fall in infant mortality rates, the longest polio-free period in the country, lowest decadal growth of population in 90 years...

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.