Tag: Poliovirus

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Looming health disaster for displaced Palestinians living in tent camps, where sewage flows freely, contaminating water.Poliovirus has been detected in samples of sewage water in the densely populated Gaza Strip, placing “thousands” of Palestinians at risk of contracting the highly infectious disease that can cause paralysis. Gaza’s Ministry of ...

Karachi has long acted as a reservoir for polio, explained Dr Natalia Molodecky, a former senior advisor to the WHO’s Global Polio Eradication Programme (GPEI) in Islamabad. Public health campaigns have focused on eradicating polio there, as well as two other regions known as historic reservoirs, Quetta Block and Peshwar.All ...

islamabad, pakistan —  Global eradication efforts have "cornered” polio in a “few pockets” of Pakistan and Afghanistan, the last two countries where the virus continues to paralyze children. Experts hailed the progress being made in tackling the “outbreak-prone” disease during a virtual briefing last week to mark a decade ...

Wild poliovirus has been detected in sewage samples from Pakistan's northwest Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP) province Published Date - 07:20 AM, Thu - 4 May 23 Photo: IANS Islamabad: Wild poliovirus has been detected in sewage samples from Pakistan‘s northwest Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP) province, the country’s health ministry said on ...

GENEVA The World Health Organization (WHO) Europe chief said Monday that despite 20 years of keeping the European Region free from indigenous wild polio, the poliovirus has hit Israel, Ukraine, and the United Kingdom over the past year.On World Polio Day, Dr. Hans Kluge, the director of the WHO's 53-member ...

This follows the virus being found in sewage in two neighboring New York City counties -- Rockland and Orange County from samples collected in May, June and July. While no other cases of polio have been reported in the US so far, a senior official with the US Centers ...

ISLAMABAD: Pakistan's vaccination programme has come under suspicion after the detection of poliovirus in sewage samples in London for the first time in four decades, according to a media report on Friday. The UK Health Security Agency has noted that the virus detected on Thursday was probably imported from ...

#Pakistan News The recent analysis of London's sewage samples showed worrying results as a type of poliovirus derived from vaccines has been detected, the World Health Organization (WHO) and British health officials said Wednesday, adding that more analysis was underway. No human cases of polio have been found in ...

Health authorities in Mozambique on Wednesday declared an outbreak of wild poliovirus type 1 after confirming that a child in the country’s north-eastern Tete province had contracted the disease. According to a press statement by World Health Organization (WHO), this marks the second imported case of wild poliovirus in ...