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Pakistan records one more poliovirus case; tally reaches 13Pakistani authorities confirmed a new poliovirus case in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, raising the national count to 13 in 2025. The affected child i...- 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...
- 3 days, 640,000 children, 1.3M doses. The plan to vaccinate Gaza's young against polioThe U.N. health agency and partners are launching a campaign to vaccinate 640,000 Palestinian children in Gaza against polio amid a devasta...
- Wasn't polio wiped out? Why it is still a problem in some countriesPolio, once nearly eradicated, remains a threat in some regions. Recent cases in Gaza highlight the danger, with efforts now focused on glo...
- Pakistan reports third polio case amid concerns of widespread transmissionThe latest victim, a 12-year-old girl from the Kili Malak Haqdad area of Darozai union council in Balochistan's Killa Abdullah district, su...
- Paul Alexander, 'Polio Paul,' dies at 78 after spending 70 years in iron lungPaul Alexander, known as "Polio Paul," has passed away at the age of 78 after living 70 years in an iron lung due to polio paralysis. Despi...
- 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...
- Polio in US, UK and Israel reveals rare risk of oral vaccineNow, in a surprising twist in the decades-long effort to eradicate the virus, authorities in Jerusalem, New York and London have discovered...
- EXPLAINER-Why has polio been found in London, New York and Jerusalem, and how dangerous is it?Polio terrified parents around the world for the first half of the 20th century. Affecting mainly children under five, it is often asymptom...
- Polio detected in NYC's sewage, suggesting virus circulatingThe presence of the poliovirus in the city's wastewater suggests likely local circulation of the virus, the city and New York state health ...
- Pakistan polio eradication campaign in disarray, country reports 12 new cases this yearPakistan is one of the two polio-endemic countries in the world along with its neighbour Afghanistan. The new case - a 21-month-old boy who...
- Uttar Pradesh recalls contaminated polio vaccineIn April 2016, after due recommendations from Global Polio Eradication Initiative, India decided to switch from the trivalent to bivalent v...
- Contaminated vaccines put India’s ‘polio free’ status at riskAt least three batches of polio vaccines containing 1.5 lakh vials have been found contaminated with type 2 polio virus. The health ministr...
- 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...
- After polio scare in Telangana, suspected case in UP detectedA suspected case of polio was detected in UP's Balrampur district, following which the state health officials have sent a report to the WHO.
- 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...
- 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.
- Ganga Ram hospital, doctor to pay Rs 3L for not conducting testsGanga Ram hospital and one of its orthopaedic surgeons have been asked by the apex consumer commission to pay Rs three lakh as compensation.
- Polio project to be reviewed: RamadossAs the national capital reported one more case of polio, Health Minister Anbumani Ramadoss has said he would review the National Polio Surv...
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