Polio, once nearly eradicated, remains a threat in some regions. Recent cases in Gaza highlight the danger, with efforts now focused on glo...

The 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, 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...

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...

Polio terrified parents around the world for the first half of the 20th century. Affecting mainly children under five, it is often asymptom...

The presence of the poliovirus in the city's wastewater suggests likely local circulation of the virus, the city and New York state health ...

Pakistan 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...

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

At least three batches of polio vaccines containing 1.5 lakh vials have been found contaminated with type 2 polio virus. The health ministr...

Kendall said,"ease of administration, coupled with dose reduction observed in this study suggests that the Nanopatch could facilitate inexp...

A suspected case of polio was detected in UP's Balrampur district, following which the state health officials have sent a report to the WHO.

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

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.

Ganga Ram hospital and one of its orthopaedic surgeons have been asked by the apex consumer commission to pay Rs three lakh as compensation.

As the national capital reported one more case of polio, Health Minister Anbumani Ramadoss has said he would review the National Polio Surv...