World Health Organization reports 64 polio infections this year: 41 in Pakistan and 23 in Afghanistan, up from six each in ...

The campaign aims to protect 45 million children after a surge in new cases in one of two countries where it was never ...

Afghanistan and Pakistan are the only countries ... religious scholars in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa declared support for polio vaccination. Qureshi, the chief khateeb of KP, was among them.

Polio cases are rising ahead of a new ... where the Taliban government in September suddenly stopped a door-to-door vaccination campaign. Afghanistan and Pakistan are the two countries in which ...

Militant attacks and suspicion stemming from misinformation are hampering Pakistan's battle to eradicate polio, but teams of ...

Militants shot dead two Pakistan policemen guarding a polio vaccination team on Tuesday, officials said, as the country confronts a recent resurgence of the disease.

Pakistan and Afghanistan. In both nations, polio vaccination teams frequently face violence, often from militant groups who ...

ISLAMABAD: An estimated 500,000 children missed polio vaccinations during this month’s countrywide inoculation drive, the ...

Pakistan and Afghanistan are the only countries where polio remains endemic. On October 28, Pakistan launched a weeklong ...

Pakistan began a nationwide vaccination campaign Monday to ... The World Health Organization has confirmed 18 polio cases in Afghanistan this year. Pakistan and Afghanistan are the only two ...

Pakistan has begun a nationwide vaccination campaign ... In severe cases, polio can cause permanent paralysis and death. In Afghanistan, a Public Health Ministry spokesman said Monday that ...