India plans to reduce its National Polio Surveillance Network centres despite health experts' warnings. The move risks allowing polio and other diseases to resurface amid ongoing regional virus ...
Overland was a reporter and public health writer in Asia for more than a decade. She is currently an editor at NPR. My son was 5 years old when he climbed out of bed and landed on the floor. He was ...
Vaccines have transformed global health, saving millions of lives. World Immunization Day 2025 highlights the need for ...
A two-year-old child in Meghalaya was tested positive for vaccine-derived polio, raising fresh questions about how a weakened virus in oral polio drops can sometimes turn infectious. On World Polio ...
Deepak Kapur, Chairman, Rotary International’s India National PolioPlus Committee (RI-INPPC) told a leading media outlet, "India was officially declared polio-free in 2014, but the battle against the ...
KARACHI, Pakistan — For the past decade, Sughra Ayaz has traveled door to door in southeastern Pakistan, pleading with parents to allow children to be vaccinated against polio as part of a global ...
A few days ago, Ramesh Ferris took his first ride on a motorbike. Born in India and raised in Canada, Ferris made the journey into rural India to meet Ruksa Khatun, the 3-year-old girl who is the last ...
Jan. 31, 2011— -- In the Manhattan double townhouse where President Franklin Delano Roosevelt recuperated from polio in the summer of 1921, billionaire Bill Gates on Monday began the latest ...