A new polio case has been confirmed in Bannu's Shamsikhel area, raising Pakistan's total to 12 in 2025. Health officials urge continued nationwide vaccination to eliminate the virus.

Bandyopadhyay’s award is, in many ways, a tribute to teamwork — a theme he himself reiterates. Bandyopadhyay, 46, met Van Damme serendipitously in Brussels in 2014. At the time, Bandyopadhyay was ...

Regional Reference Laboratory for Polio Eradication notes the southern districts of KP remain areas of concern due to inaccessibility.

ISLAMABAD: Federal Minister for Health, Syed Mustafa Kamal, on Thursday claimed that Pakistan has witnessed over 99 per cent decline in polio cases. He was addressing the joint session of the Gavi ...

Read More: Pakistan ‘reports’ another polio case in 2025 In Punjab and Sindh, 97percent of children have received the vaccine, while the coverage stands at 98percent in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and ...

Before vaccines and public health triumphs, polio was the thing that kept parents up at night. During its peak from 1948 to 1955, the disease swept through towns across America, hitting children ...

Emergency immunisation campaign to reach 3 million children under 10 as national polio response ramps up Papua New Guinea (PNG) has taken a major step in the fight against polio, with the arrival of ...

TO date, 48 cases of acute flaccid paralysis have been reported across 11 provinces. Of these, 20 tested negatives for poliovirus, and 28 remain under investigation. Environmental sampling has ...

AFM is caused by a virus that’s a cousin of the polio virus, earning it the nickname “the new polio.” Journalist and physician Eli Cahan joins Host Flora Lichtman to explain what doctors have been ...

More recently, researchers have found another aspect of the illness that’s a historical throwback. Enterovirus D-68 (EVD-68), which is a cousin of the enterovirus that causes polio, emerged as the ...

LANCASTER − After turning 100 on May 29, Rita Competti is thought to be the oldest living polio survivor in the country and maybe even the world. "Yes, yes," she said.