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Pulse polio to cover 2.31 lakh children below five years in Mysuru district

Mysuru district prepares for national pulse polio programme on March 3, aiming to vaccinate 2,31,354 children under five years.

The Hindu

Pulse polio immunisation campaign in T.N. on March 3

Chennai intensifies pulse polio campaign for children under five, inaugurates 700-bed hospital in Nagapattinam.

The Hindu

Pulse Polio Immunisation programme in Thiruvananthapuram on March 3

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Pulse Polio Immunisation drive on March 3

Health department arranges 23,471 booths, including mobile and transit booths, to administer the vaccine to children. A total of 46,942 volunteers and 1,564 supervisors have been trained to conduct the drive in the State.

The Hindu

Over 2 lakh children to be covered in the pulse polio campaign in Cuddalore district

Intensified Pulse Polio campaign in Cuddalore district to vaccinate 0-5 year olds with 1,611 booths set up.

The Hindu

Pulse polio drive in Chamarajanagar taluk to cover 20,000 children

MYSURU pulse polio drive to cover 20,000+ children in Chamarajanagar taluk with 189 booths and 779 staff deployed.

The Hindu

Zimbabwe Launches Emergency Polio Vaccination Campaign For Children

Zimbabwe launches urgent polio vaccination campaign to protect children from mutated virus outbreak. Learn about the global efforts to eradicate polio and ...

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Should India study wastewater to track malaria, dengue?

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.

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Umaru Shehu: Nigerian public health giant who played a major role in polio eradication

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.

The Conversation

An unexpected friendship: The graveyard keeper and the polio survivor

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

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Lessons learnt from polio eradication programme can help improve retinopathy of prematurity services in India: Lancet paper

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…

Salon

Where did vaccine mistrust come from?

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

The Independent UK

Pakistan launches anti-polio vaccine drive targeting 44M children amid tight security

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

The Independent UK

Pakistan officials consider a new way to boost polio vaccination: prison

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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Annie Lennox plans to fundraise and entertain at Rotary event in Italy. She does not plan to retire

Annie Lennox is not retiring

The Guardian - UK

Parents in Pakistan could be jailed for polio vaccine refusal

New law in Sindh introduces ‘extraordinary measures’ to ensure vaccination of children against range of infectious diseases

The Hindu

Disruptive treatments

Medical research has brought slow but significant changes to disease diagnostics, drugs, and surgery. Disruptive medical inventions have converted some "surgical" diseases to medical ones, reducing the need for surgery. Examples include polio vaccine, antibiotics for gastric ulcers, and Ponsetti plaster casts for club foot. We hope for more such…

Salon

Anti-vaxxers are now after your dog

The anti-vaxxers are now going to war against rabies vaccines for dogs

The Independent UK

Mitch McConnell’s health struggles back in focus as he suffers second ‘freeze’ on camera

Republican leader was led away by colleagues just weeks ago after freezing in halls of US Senate, write Gustaf Kilander, John Bowden and Oliver O’Connell

The Guardian - UK

New technique cuts time to detect polio in half, study finds

Outbreaks may be addressed sooner by avoiding need for sending stool samples abroad

The Independent UK

Paraplegic man with polio whose mother tried to cure him by putting him in a hole as a child now flourishing in the UK

Jignesh (Jig) Vaidya, 52, was born in Mumbai, India, and contracted polio aged two, leaving him paralysed from the waist down.

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