Environmental samples collected from four cities in Pakistan, including Karachi and Peshawar, have tested positive for Wild Poliovirus 1 (W...

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

The WHO could declare the situation to be a Public Health Emergency of International Concern (PHEIC). Here is a look at how the decision is...

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...

The most obvious and immediate area of action is to expedite the vaccination programme and expand its coverage to include all sections of p...

India conducts one nationwide NID, commonly known as the pulse polio immunisation programme, and two sub-national immunization days every y...

"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...

The United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) and the World Health Organization (WHO) said the risk of children getting vaccine derived polio...

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.

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

Scientists have developed a new generation of polio vaccine strains that are both effective and unable to cause the disease in case of an a...

A five-month-old child from the Murshidabad district of West Bengal has got infected with the virus after taking the oral polio vaccine.

Bill Gates of Bill and Melinda Gates foundation has congratulated Bihar Chief Minister for the state having no report of wild poliovirus.

To make the vaccine easily available, Panacea Biotec is partnering Emzor pharma which has a strong footprint across Nigeria.

A leading Indian pharmaceutical company has launched a polio vaccine, POLPROTEC in Nigeria to help combat the spread of polio in Africa's t...

Pakistan, reported over 190 cases last year, and also exported the crippling virus to China that was polio-free for 20 years.

Pakistan is dubbed as the "epicentre" of global terrorism. Now, the terror-affected country is the hotbed of a deadly strain of polio which...