Polio continues to cripple Pakistan as virus yet again detected across 20 sewage samplesPakistan faces a polio challenge. Poliovirus is found in sewage samples from various districts, including Islamabad. Sindh has the highest ...
13 Jul, 2025, 08.46 PM IST
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...
19 Nov, 2024, 07.11 PM IST
Palestinians say Israel struck Gaza clinic during polio campaign; Army denies itA reported Israeli drone strike on a clinic in northern Gaza, where children were being vaccinated for polio, wounded six people, including...
03 Nov, 2024, 02.02 PM IST
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...
31 Aug, 2024, 10.00 AM IST
Three-day pulse polio vaccination drive begins today: Here are all details on booths, timings, and areasA nationwide three-day pulse polio vaccination drive targeting children aged 0 to 5 is underway. Starting on Sunday, mobile teams, transit ...
03 Mar, 2024, 11.11 AM IST
National Vaccination Day: Date, History and Significance of the dayIndia annually celebrates National Immunization Day on 16 March to raise awareness of the value of immunisation.
16 Mar, 2023, 12.07 PM IST
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...
15 Aug, 2022, 05.38 PM IST
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...
25 Oct, 2020, 07.36 PM IST
Pandemic halts vaccination for nearly 80 million childrenUNICEF reported a significant delay in planned vaccine deliveries due to lockdown measures and a dramatic reduction in the number of availa...
22 May, 2020, 09.09 PM IST
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...
11 Oct, 2018, 04.51 PM IST
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...
05 Oct, 2018, 09.13 AM IST
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...
15 Jun, 2016, 04.34 PM IST
Injectable vaccine to prevent re-emergence of polio launchedHealth Minister JP Nadda said that though India was certified polio-free on March 27, 2014, the battle against polio is not over yet.
30 Nov, 2015, 01.42 PM IST
Pakistan cancels 2015's first anti-polio campaignThe target of the SIAD campaign, which had to be held in the high-risk union councils of 54 districts, was to vaccinate 8.5 million childre...
05 Jan, 2015, 04.52 PM IST
CIA to stop using vaccination programmes as cover for spyingThe newly CIA policy mandates that it won't use vaccination programmes as part of its spy operations, according to senior Obama administrat...
20 May, 2014, 06.09 PM IST
UP clerics seek to campaign for Polio vaccination in PakistanClerics from Uttar Pradesh have offered to spread awareness about the benefits of vaccination in Taliban affected areas in Pakistan.
23 Jun, 2013, 03.05 PM IST
Year's first case of vaccine-derived polio reported in BengalA five-month-old child from the Murshidabad district of West Bengal has got infected with the virus after taking the oral polio vaccine.
19 Mar, 2012, 09.14 AM IST