Health workers vaccinate a 2-year-old child during a polio vaccination campaign in January 2015 in a rural area of Tehsil Fateh Jang, Punjab in Pakistan. Credit: Wikimedia Commons/ CDC Global ...
PESHAWAR, Pakistan — After years of decline, polio is surging again in this populous South Asian nation, dimming hopes that the viral disease — eradicated nearly everywhere else on Earth ...
A senior World Health Organization official cautioned Wednesday that the eradication of polio in Afghanistan and Pakistan, the only countries where the paralytic virus persists, is threatened by ...
Pakistan has reported its first polio case of 2025 from Khyber Pakhtunkhwa’s Dera Ismail (DI) Khan, according to an official statement on Wednesday. “On Wednesday, January 22, 2025 ...
In a concerning development in Pakistan's fight against polio, recent sewage samples collected from the Mirpurkhas, Thatta, and Naushahro Feroze districts in Sindh have tested positive for Wild ...
However, the global fight against polio has encountered a significant setback, as cases of the disease have begun to rise again in Pakistan. Despite being on the brink of eradication in 2023 ...
The World Health Organization (WHO) praised Pakistan on Thursday for reducing polio cases by over 99% since 1994, reaffirming its commitment to assist the country in completing the final phase of ...
Not being able to eradicate polio primarily epitomises the failure of governance in contemporary Pakistan and the failure to meet decades-old global obligations. It also shows that our resolve to ...
The Pakistan Polio Programme conducts several mass vaccination campaigns throughout the year, bringing vaccines directly to children’s doorsteps, while the Expanded Programme on ...
ISLAMABAD: Poliovirus has been detected in environmental samples collected from 26 districts of the all four provinces. According to health ministry officials, it is the first time in 2025 that ...
"All aspects of the polio campaign are being continuously monitored with an information technology dashboard," the prime minister said. Pakistan has reported a total of 73 cases of wild poliovirus ...
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