Health workers are braving freezing temperatures this week to administer polio vaccinations in Pakistan-administered Kashmir ...
Pakistan launched its first polio vaccination campaign of 2025 on Monday, with which it plans to vaccinate more than 45 million children under the age of five, after registering a sharp increase in ...
The Pakistani Taliban claimed the killing of a police officer as he travelled Monday to guard polio vaccinators on the first ...
A police officer working on Pakistan’s first polio vaccination drive of the year was shot and killed by unidentified gunmen ...
ISLAMABAD (AP) — A police officer working on Pakistan’s first polio vaccination drive of the year was shot and killed by ...
A Pakistan police officer travelling to guard polio vaccinators was shot dead Monday, police said, on the first day of a ...
Polio is highly contagious and can spread easily from person to person. The poliovirus causes polio, short for poliomyelitis. The virus can live in your throat and digestive system. It enters the body ...
The Pakistan Polio Pro­g­ramme conducts several mass vaccination campai­gns throughout the year, bringing vaccines directly to children’s doorsteps, while the Expanded Progr­a­mme on ...
The Regional Reference Laboratory for Polio Eradication at the National Institute of Health (NIH) has confirmed the detection of the first wild poliovirus type 1 (WPV1) case of 2025. The lab ...
Multiple doses of the oral polio vaccine and completion of the routine vaccination schedule for all children under the age of five are essential to provide children with high immunity against this ...