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The Kenya Medical Research Institute (KEMRI) has commissioned a state-of-the-art Expanded Polio Laboratory worth KSh 64 million at its headquarters in Nairobi.
As they prepared to leave their home early Saturday, Nelson grabbed the polio insurance policy he’d purchased. The year was ...
Pakistan reported two new polio cases in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, raising the national tally to 26, *Dawn* reported. The NIH said ...
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Polio drive kicks off in K-P today

Pakhtunkhwa, the three-day second phase of the anti-polio campaign in selected districts will begin on Monday (today).The campaign will cover Bajaur, Bannu, Lakki Marwat, Tank, Dera Ismail Khan, North ...
Talk to anyone who lived through the 1950s and they’ll remember when schools shut down for polio outbreaks and families lived in fear of measles, mumps, and diphtheria sweeping through neighborhoods.
Before vaccinations were developed, diseases killed millions of people. Medical experts and researchers have studied diseases ...
In 1952, its peak year in the U.S., polio outbreaks left nearly 21,000 victims paralyzed and 3,000 dead. After the country ...
It would be a terrible thing — and so avoidable — for others to contract and suffer from diseases such as polio, measles, ...
In the 1950s and ‘60s Montana was among the leaders in the war against polio and nearly 4,000 Montana children participated in a 1954 field trial of the Salk polio ...
Florida’s surgeon general said Sunday that he had not weighed the cost – in terms of infections, hospitalizations or deaths – ...