World Health Organization Says Beginning Today a Second Round of Polio Vaccination in the Gaza Strip Aims to Vaccinate Over ...

Foreign Office-backed health service warns that the disease which is dangerous especially to children can spread if people ...

As of this year, 2024, a total of 32 polio cases have been reported in Pakistan. Among these, 16 cases were reported from ...

Alarm bells sounded in August when a 10-month-old baby boy in the Gaza Strip was partially paralyzed by poliovirus. The case made history as the territory’s first confirmed report of polio in 25 ...

PESHAWAR: Frequent administration of injections was causing “provocative poliomyelitis” as three of the four polio affected ...

Poliovirus is a member of the genus Enterovirus within the family Picornaviridae. Poliomyelitis is a highly infectious disease caused by poliovirus that tends to impact children most significantly.

The second round of an emergency polio vaccination campaign is scheduled to start on 14 October 2024 in Gaza, to vaccinate an estimated 591,700 children under ten years of age with a second dose of ...

ISLAMABAD: The total number of poliovirus cases in Pakistan climbed 23 after a 10-month-old baby girl in district Kohat of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa was diagnosed with the virus. The infant from Tehsil ...

The latest polio cases, one in the Karachi East district and the other in the port city’s Sujawal district, brought the ...

The polio virus has been detected in Rawalpindi, with lab tests confirming its presence in water samples taken from the Nullah Leh and other rainstorm drains. This has raised alarm within the ...

Pakistan has reported 26 polio cases this year, including two new cases in Sindh province. These cases emerged in Karachi East and Sujawal districts, indicating poliovirus circulation. Authorities ...