Pakistan’s first nationwide polio campaign of 2025 launched the first week of February, aiming to vaccinate over 45.4 million children under the age of 5 in 159 of the country's 166 districts.

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 ...

SINGAPORE – On Feb 7, a five-month-old Indonesian girl who arrived in Singapore for emergency medical treatment was confirmed to be a case of vaccine-associated polio. According to the Ministry ...

While the five countries reporting the virus maintain high immunization coverage, with three doses of the inactivated poliovirus vaccine (IPV), subnational coverage of the third dose of the polio ...

Addis Ababa: The Ethiopian government launched a nationwide polio vaccination campaign on Wednesday, targeting more than 13.8 million children. The Ethiopia Public Health Institute (EPHI ...

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 ...

Geneva: The World Health Organization said Wednesday that mass polio vaccination would resume in Gaza on Saturday, targeting nearly 600,000 children, after the virus was again detected in the ...

GENEVA, Feb 19 (Reuters) - The World Health Organization said on Wednesday that a mass campaign to vaccinate children against polio in Gaza would resume on Saturday, with over half a million ...

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 ...

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 ...

Pakistan's struggle with polio remains a glaring public health crisis, refusing to abate despite decades of vaccination drives and awareness campaigns. The latest confirmation of wild poliovirus ...