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 ...

Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif on Sunday launched the first nationwide anti-polio campaign for the year 2025, the Prime Minister’s House (PMO) reported. The campaign will commerce on February 3 ...

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 ...

Wild poliovirus was almost eradicated globally two years ago, but poor conditions are causing cases to rise in Afghanistan and spill into Pakistan. https://p.dw.com/p ...

AUSTIN, Texas — In the early 1950s, it was hard to avoid seeing the heartbreaking pictures in magazines and newspapers of children stricken with polio, a virus that struck fear in parents ...

And that’s especially true when it comes to the vaccine for polio. The state’s infants and toddlers are falling short of thresholds needed to fight off all-but-eradicated diseases, such as ...

ISLAMABAD: After a significant rise in polio cases last year, which totalled 73, the country has reported its first case of polio for 2025. The Regional Reference Laboratory for Polio Era­d­i ...