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L OUISVILLE, Ky. (WAVE) - Thursday was the last day of classes for Jefferson County Public Schools and Superintendent Dr.
The Department of Health (DOH) extended for another 15 days the national immunization activity for children as it has yet to reach targets for meas
Under the National Immunisation Programme, a week-long anti-polio campaign will kick off on Monday in various districts of the four provinces in th
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Interior Minister Rana Sanaullah Khan on Wednesday strongly condemned the attack on a polio vaccination team in North Waziristan and paid tribute t
A Pakistani soldier was killed in firing by unknown terrorists in Pakistan's northwest Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province on Wednesday, an army state
Police said armed individuals attacked security forces who were escorting polio workers during an inoculation campaign in a region previously under
A Pakistani soldier was killed on Wednesday when militants opened fire on a polio vaccination team, the country's military said, in the latest
Police say gunmen killed one soldier and wounded another when they opened fire on security forces escorting a team of polio workers during a door-t
But unlike past outbreaks, the virus detected in London, New York and Jerusalem is not wild polio.
The three-day pulse polio immunisation drive in the district concluded with the Health Department administering polio drops to nearly 2.98 lakh chi
Islamabad:Two environmental samples collected from Pakistan's northwest Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province have tested positive for wild poliovirus,
According to the authorities, less than half of the target population has been immunized against polio.
Chief medical officer of Prayagraj Dr Ashu Pandey said the drive of administering polio drops to kids was started at Dufferin Hospital by chief dev
The health minister said that 'rate contracts' have already been finalised for 95 per cent of the medicines supplied in government hospit
The Delhi Metro Rail Corporation (DMRC), on Monday, announced that it has set up pulse polio booths at 18 metro stations in Delhi for Pulse Polio I
Though the disease is considered endemic in just two countries, the fight to get rid of polio entirely by the end of 2026 is far from a foregone co
On the first day of the three-day pulse polio immunisation drive, Civil Surgeon Dr Gurpreet Singh Rai flagged off a rally from his office on Sunday
Over 2.1 lakh children below five years of age were administered polio drops on the first day of the pulse polio campaign launched in the city on S
The Pulse Polio Campaign, 2022, was launched across the district on Sunday and children below five years of age were covered on the first day of th
Bhopal (Madhya Pradesh): Public health and family welfare minister Dr Prabhuram Chaudhary launched a three-day Pulse Polio campaign by administerin
An official spokesperson said the campaign will continue for another two days by way of house-to-house activity to trace and administer polio drops
Nearly 15 lakh children will be covered under the first sub-national immunisation round of pulse polio 2023-24 that will take place in six district
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GENEVA (Reuters) -More than 1 million polio vaccines intended for children have been destroyed as a result of looting in Sudan during the upsurge i
The pulse polio campaign is to be launched across 16 districts on Sunday with the aim of immunising kids against polio and to keep the country safe
To keep the people safe from wild polio virus, Health and Family Welfare Minister Dr Balbir Singh will launch a three-day immunisation campaign fro
An anti-polio campaign is scheduled to commence on May 29, targeting a total of 364,422 children below the age of five.
About 37.55 lakh children below 5 years of age will be administered dose of pulse polio in the state on Sunday.
Due to the gap in the immunisation of children during the global pandemic, diseases that lay dormant for decades are now re-emerging.
Presidential Adviser for Health Affairs and Preventive Mohamed Awad Tag-Eddin has stressed that Egypt is free of polio cases.
Africa's largest polio vaccination campaign since 2020 kicks off today in three West and Central African countries, in a combined effort by na
Sid Korn could very well be a walking definition of recovery.
When a new and hoped-to-be safer oral polio vaccine started to make its way into use in March 2021, there was huge optimism that this long-needed t
Minister for National Health Services Abdul Qadir Patel has said the government is pursuing a coordinated strategy for elimination of polio virus f
A new polio case from the Nazyan district of Nangarhar province has been reported, affecting a 30-month-old male child.
The Sub-National Pulse Polio Vaccination Campaign will be held on Sunday, May 28 in the Navi Mumbai Municipal Corporation (NMMC) area.
The DIO, however, said as per the micro plan, all the identified 8,59,978 children from birth to five years of age need to be vaccinated and appeal
Unknown individuals, on Thursday, opened fire on a polio team in the Tirah Valley of the Khyber district, resulting in injuries to three police per
Three policemen were injured in Pakistan's Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province on Thursday when unidentified gunmen opened fire at a
Three police officers were wounded in an attack by gunmen on May 25 on a polio vaccination team in Pakistan's Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Province that
Three policemen were injured in a firing incident in Pakistan's northwest Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province on Thursday, police said.
Kanpur: Around 5.5 lakh infants will be given ‘Do boond zindagi ki’ during the six-day long intensive pulse polio campaign to start in the district
When Jonas Salk’s polio vaccine was found to be safe and effective in 1955, following a successful trial involving nearly two million American chil
On May 17th, Syracuse became the very first city in New York State to deploy Dr.
India administers two kinds of polio vaccines to children, first is the inactive polio vaccine (IPV) and the other is the bio-oral polio vaccine (b
In May 2014, the World Health Organisation (WHO) declared polio a public health emergency of international concern (PHEIC).