The Latest Breaking News from Polio

A roadside bomb has exploded near a van carrying police assigned to protect workers in an anti-polio immunization campaign in restive northwestern Pakistan, killing at least six officers and wounding 10 others

Bomb blast kills at least five police officers deployed to protect polio vaccination workers in northwestern Pakistan.

Medical experts are concerned about the rising cases of measles and polio in the US, pointing to immigration and vaccine hesitancy as potential causes. Pub...

Wastewater surveillance used to track polio virus & other pathogens, including SARS-CoV-2, for decades; cost-effective & provides accurate information on virus spread & new variants.

Professor Emeritus Umaru Shehu, who died on 2 October 2023, was born in Yerwa (Maiduguri), Nigeria, in 1930. Widely regarded as one of the country’s early leaders in public health policy and practice, he was the first public health physician in the northern region and remained active all his life.

In Lampedusa, two longtime friends observe the refugee crisis close-up and discuss the value of human life.

Highlighting the success of the Global Polio Eradication Initiative (GPEI), doctors from Narayana Nethralaya and the University of Western Australia have said that lessons learnt from this initiative can help improve retinopathy of prematurity (ROP) services in India. A paper on this titled Retinopathy of prematurity in India: what can…

Many people once lined up joyously to receive vaccines. What changed?

Pakistan has launched its second nationwide anti-polio campaign of the year Monday in an effort to inoculate 44 million children under the age of 5

Authorities in one province of Pakistan are turning to a controversial new tactic in the decades-long initiative to wipe out polio: prison

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