A mass vaccination campaign against polio in the Gaza Strip has been completed in just over two months, Israel and the UN ...
The third phase of a delayed polio vaccination campaign in Gaza will begin on Saturday, aid organisations said on Friday, ...
The Israeli military said on Wednesday aid organizations had completed a second polio vaccination round for children in Gaza, ...
Militant attacks and suspicion stemming from misinformation are hampering Pakistan's battle to eradicate polio, but teams of ...
KARACHI: The country's polio virus tally for the year has risen to 46 as another child was crippled by the contagious disease in Balochistan's Qila Saifullah district. Authorities have confirmed ...
Polio, the shortened name for the much-feared illness known by the scientific name, Poliomyelitis, is a disease caused by a virus that specifically attacks the nerves of the human body. The virus ...
Pakistan 47th polio case was reported in Sindh Ghotki district, Geo News reported, quoting a statement by the Pakistan Polio ...
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 ...
confirmed in August that a baby was partially paralysed by the type 2 polio virus, the first such case in the territory in 25 years. Out of a total of 1,107,541 vaccinations for children across ...
Over the summer, the polio virus was detected in Gaza's wastewater and a baby was diagnosed with the first case in the ...
This marks the second polio case this year from both districts, where environmental samples tested positive for WPV1, highlighting a high risk of virus transmission in the region. Five children ...
confirmed in August that a baby was partially paralysed by the type 2 polio virus, the first such case in the territory in 25 years. The humanitarian pause to conduct the campaign had been agreed ...