JCPS Superintendent Marty Pollio accused TARC bus drivers of intentionally failing a certification exam. Between July and December, JCPS paid TARC about $2.5 million for salaries, benefits and ...

The Pakistani Taliban claimed the killing of a police officer as he travelled Monday to guard polio vaccinators on the first day of a nationwide immunisation effort after a year of rising cases. The ...

This is a locator map for Pakistan with its capital, Islamabad, and the Kashmir region. (AP Photo) A health worker, left, administers a polio vaccine to a child at a neighborhood in Peshawar, Pakistan ...

Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif on Sunday launched the year’s first nationwide anti-polio campaign, running from February 3 to 9, by administering polio drops to children under five and vowing to ...

Every aspect of Grace Rossow’s life since she was around nine months old has been affected by polio. The vaccine-preventable gastrointestinal disease attacks the nervous system and can cause ...

The polio vaccine is a public health success so profound that few people in the U.S. even think about the disease the vaccine prevents. But before the vaccine was approved in 1955, polio was a widely ...

As a polio survivor, I believe that lethal diseases will recur if RFK Jr. is the next secretary of Health and Human Services. As the Senate undertakes its examination of Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to ...

Polio is highly contagious and can spread easily from person to person. The poliovirus causes polio, short for poliomyelitis. The virus can live in your throat and digestive system. It enters the body ...

This development comes as Pakistan continues to grapple with the challenge of polio eradication, with 73 polio cases reported across the country in 2024 alone. Earlier, the Regional Reference ...

You may follow him at Twitter @FidelRahmati Officials at the Baghlan Public Health Department have reported a new case of polio in the city of Pul-e-Khumri. Abdul Qahar Ahmadi, the head of the Public ...

By 2000, through mass vaccination campaigns of oral polio vaccines, the world had almost eradicated poiliovirus barring a few regions. However, the global fight against polio has encountered a ...

Polio is a major threat in fragile and conflict-affected settings. According to the GPEI, 85% of polio cases in 2024 were in these settings. 4 Routine immunisation has substantially reduced in such ...