In 1952, polio was everywhere: killing or paralyzing roughly half a million people annually. Yet just 10 years later, paralytic polio cases in the US dropped by 96% and we were on track to ...
Nine people were killed, including five children, in a bombing on Friday that targeted a southwest Pakistan polio drive, ...
A 32-year-old polio survivor from Lahore, Sadia Salman, has convinced hundreds of hundreds of reluctant parents to vaccinate ...
Militant attacks and suspicion stemming from misinformation are hampering Pakistan's battle to eradicate polio, but teams of ...
Multiple children were injured when Israeli bombs struck near a vaccination clinic in northern Gaza, WHO says.
The third and final phase of polio vaccinations is underway in the northern Gaza strip after being postponed due to a lack of ...
They told Dawn that in the last door-to-door anti-polio campaign from Oct 28 to Nov 3, the vaccinators missed only 1.5 per ...
At least nine people, including five schoolchildren ... Friday’s attack targeted police guarding a polio vaccination drive in Mastung, a town in Balochistan province. “The target was a ...
The UN said Wednesday its Gaza child polio vaccination drive was complete, with more than half a million children vaccinated ...
Oct. 24 marked the beginning of Rotary International’s End Polio Now campaign. Oct. 24 is the birthday of Dr. Jonas Salk, the scientist who spearheaded the development of the first polio vaccine. In ...
The World Health Organization said Friday that the necessary second round of child polio vaccinations in northern Gaza would ...
He said seven people died on the spot ... van came under attack when it was heading to a health center to escort polio workers for the door-to-door campaign that began on Monday to vaccinate ...