However, with 100,000 cases per year, polio was a smaller public health threat than tuberculosis, heart disease, cancer, cerebal palsy, or muscular dystrophy.
LA CROSSE (WKBT) -- Four Coulee Region Rotary Clubs will be hosting a unique fundraiser that not only raises awareness of polio but brings people together through an ever-expanding sport at their ...
World Polio Day, observed annually on October 24, is a global initiative to raise awareness about the fight to eradicate poliomyelitis across the world. The day was established by Rotary ...
Nine people were killed, including five children, in a bombing on Friday that targeted a southwest Pakistan polio drive, according to officials. The bomb, which was attached to a motorcycle ...
The virus that causes polio has been found in a concerning number of sewage samples in London and all children aged one to nine years old are to be offered a polio booster jab. There have been no ...
Policeman Killed in Attack on Polio Vaccination Teams in Pakistan PESHAWAR, Pakistan (Reuters) -At least one policeman was killed in northwest Pakistan on Tuesday as unidentified gunmen attacked a ...
ISLAMABAD (AP) — Polio cases are rising ahead of a new vaccination campaign in Pakistan, where violence targeting health workers and the police protecting them has hampered years of efforts ...
UNICEF’s Chief of Bauchi Field Office, Nuzhat Rafique made the disclosure during a road walk on Thursday, held to mark this year’s World Polio Day. She said that the deaths and disabilities ...
The World Health Organization (WHO) has set about vaccinating hundreds of thousands of children in Gaza in response to the ...
"Genetic sequencing of the cases is under way," said a Pakistan polio eradication program statement Saturday while reporting the two new infections in Sindh. "The intense virus transmission and ...
Dr. Aghaalkurdi is a humanitarian worker displaced in Khan Younis, Gaza. In August, health officials recorded the first case of polio in Gaza in more than 25 years, in an unvaccinated 10-month-old ...
Pakistan began a nationwide vaccination campaign Monday to protect 45 million children from polio after a surge in new cases ...