Tag: Polio

#Pakistan News Polio diagnosed in an unvaccinated four-year-old child and in two other children who were contacts of the child, authorities say, as government eyes a new immunisation drive within weeks. WHO said that the last time children in Burundi were vaccinated against polio was in 2016. (AP Archive) ...

Health ministry says the four-day campaign will cover more than nine million children in 31 of the country’s 34 provinces.The Taliban administration in Afghanistan has launched the annual polio inoculation campaign aimed at reaching more than nine million children under the age of five, the health ministry said. Afghanistan ...

The State of New York’s health department called for residents to get vaccinated against polio before traveling to Israel, where several children have recently tested positive for the virus. In a statement Friday, the New York Department of Health noted the four cases diagnosed in the northern city of ...

GENEVA — More than 33 million children in several southern African countries have been vaccinated against polio as part of ongoing efforts to eradicate the infectious paralytic disease that has been largely contained in most of the world, the World Health Organization (WHO) announced Friday.About 80 million drops of ...

The Emirates Polio Vaccination Campaign in the Islamic Republic of Pakistan, during the period from 2014 to the end of 2022, provided 667 million 478 thousand and 974 vaccination doses against polio. And the management of the UAE Project to Help Pakistan announced the results of the campaign that ...

Islamabad —  Pakistan Monday launched its first nationwide anti-polio campaign of the year to immunize children under the age of five against the crippling disease. The move follows a surge in new infections in 2022.While no new case has been reported in Pakistan so far this year, the highly ...

Pakistan authorities said they are launching a five-day polio drive to eradicate the crippling disease from the country. Officials said 100,000 healthcare workers begin working Monday to vaccinate 13.5 million children under the age of five across 36 high risk districts, including Islamabad, the capital. “Our aim is to ...

Pakistani authorities launched a new nationwide anti-polio drive on Monday amid a spike in new cases among children, health officials said. It is the sixth such campaign this year and will last for five days, aiming to inoculate children under the age of 5 in high-risk areas. ...

https://sputniknews.com/20221109/i-dreamt-to-be-professional-cricketer-polio-afflicted-scientist-shares-his-ordeal-1103938233.html'I Dreamt to Be Professional Cricketer': Polio-Afflicted Scientist Shares His Ordeal'I Dreamt to Be Professional Cricketer': Polio-Afflicted Scientist Shares His OrdealAccording to the Global Polio Eradication Initiative (GPEI), since 1988, cases of the polio virus have dropped by 99 percent worldwide, from more than 350,000... 09.11.2022, Sputnik International2022-11-09T16:20+00002022-11-09T16:20+00002022-11-09T16:20+0000worldpakistanpoliodiseasehealthinterviewsvaccineasia & ...

October 24 was World Polio Day. There are still about 20 new cases of polio globally, specifically in Pakistan, Afghanistan and Mozambique, but even one case is dangerous. Thus, many governments have taken the challenge of fully eradicating polio head on.Just a few days ago, world leaders at the ...