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The global public health initiative to eradicate polio is "not a done deal." That's the consensus at the 2016 World Health Summit in
One of the Rotary Club’s largest areas of focus in recent years has been its effort to eradicate polio worldwide, which dates back to the group’s F
The Gates Foundation has thrown its weight behind Rotary International to boost the polio end game support as the announcement was made at the Rota
DAKAR (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Health workers have launched a drive to vaccinate more than 41 million children against polio in West Africa
A type 2 vaccine-derived polio virus was isolated from Amberpet and Nagole drains on August 28 by an environment surveillance team.
The after effects of polio have been a part Ralph Hayes’ life for 63 years. He first contracted the crippling disease before his first birthday.
By my first birthday, the United States was in the grip of the worst polio epidemic in our nation's history: 57,628 cases, killing 3,245 and l
Eight polio cases have been recorded in Afghanistan so far this year with a new confirmed one detected recently, the country's Public Health M
Let each one of us resolve to follow the path of moral and ethical rectitude which has guided us for centuries, Mukherjee said.
KABUL, Oct.
Oktoberfest is about more than beer and brats for local Rotary Clubs.
Raju, a polio-afflicted middle-age man, and elderly Savitri Devi from Jaunpur district were "extremely critical" and battling for lives a
LAHORE: The four-day sub-national immunisation days (SNIDs) campaign will be launched in selected high risk districts of Punjab on Oct 24.
THE global war against polio virus has been waged on many fronts for more than half a century with punctuated accelerations and decelerations.
About 8 million children have been vaccinated as against the 31.54 million children targeted for the first and second rounds responses against the
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KARACHI: A polio case was reported on Saturday from Sujawal district, taking the total number of cases in Sindh to five and in the country to 15 th
HYDERABAD: An eight-year-old became the latest victim of the polio virus in a coastal village of Sujawal district, making it the fifth case of the
“As of now, government has released some money so far, and we are still advocating for more to ensure Nigeria would be polio-free by the year 2020”
I’m overlooking the threats of polio and nuclear annihilation, which cast long shadows over those years.
PESHAWAR: A resident of tehsil Bara, Khyber Agency and polio worker appealed to all the refusal parents to vaccinate their offspring with polio dro
Rotarians from Dickinson have been on the front lines of eradicating polio throughout the world.
Bonnie Ulrich of Dickinson was a little girl in 1950 when she contracted polio.
Nigeria’s health minister, Isaac Adewole, said on Friday that his government is determined to rid the country of polio again.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) is warning people about the illness that can lead to paralysis.
Without warning, Carter Roberts's "playful, active, and healthy" lifestyle took a drastic turn in July.
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WHO has published Wild polio and vaccine derived polio in Nigeria.
After more than two years without the detection of wild polio in Nigeria, the Government reported three laboratory confirmed wild poliovirus type o
PESHAWAR (Web Desk) – The Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province is on its way to get rid of polio adhering to the goal set forth in the National Emergency Po
Six weeks ago, in WHO Statement On Two Wild Poliovirus Cases In Nigeria, we saw the first reports of wild polio in Nigeria since 2014.
In the 1940s and ’50s, polio — a viral disease which attacks the central nervous system — affected nearly half a million people worldwide each year
PESHAWAR: Khyber Pakhtunkhwa is on its way to get rid of polio in line with goal set forth in the National Emergency Polio Eradication Plan, which
SANNIQUELLIE, Nimba – Six suspected cases of polio have been discovered in Nimba, according to county health officials. Dr.
The polio epidemic was devastating in the 20th century, causing paralysis and even death in children, but the disease was eliminated in 1979.
Clitheroe is being turned Purple4Polio by the Rotary Clubs of Clitheroe and Ribblesdale together with the pupils of Ribblesdale High School.
Kwiza Mbumbeh, Maiduguri(October 6, 2016)-The Yobe State Government has launched campaigns against the eradication of polio with the establishment
The Government of Yobe state, on inaugurated what it called polio outbreak response centers in remote border communities of the state as a way of c
Named Acute flaccid myelitis or AFM, it is a condition that affects the nervous system, especially the spinal cord which connects all parts of the
Dr. Julianna LeMieux, Senior Fellow in Molecular Biology at the American Council on Science and Health, received her Ph.D.
Cases of the polio-like disease acute flaccid myelitis, or AFM, which causes paralysis in children, is on the rise in the United States. The U.S.
The Yobe State Taskforce on routine immunisation has taken the campaign against the child killer diseases to boarder communities in the state.
The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention stated that a polio-like illness known as acute flaccid myelitis (AFM) is paralyzing the US child
A polio-like disease is on the rise across the U.S., health officials reported this week.
In an effort to halt the spread of Wild Polio Virus (WPV) following its recent outbreak and confirmation of three cases in Borno State, the Nati
When Amitabh Bachchan says something, everyone listens; when he does something, everyone follows.
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After more than two years without the detection of wild polio in Nigeria, the Government reported three laboratory confirmed wild poliovirus type o
Confirmed cases of acute flaccid myelitis (AFM) in the United States have increased in 2016 compared with 2015, and the cause remains unclear, fede