"You can try to tie at the hip, and that’s OK ... Most people want to keep living in a world where measles and polio are not threatening our children. Beckwith's ideas are a serious threat ...

In the last two years, vaccine-derived polio has been spotted in the United States and Gaza. Now the original wild-type polio ...

The first round of an international campaign to vaccinate children in the Gaza Strip against polio ended in mid-September, with nearly 560,000 kids receiving initial doses amid staggered ...

The Health Ministry has decided to phase out vaccinating with the bOPV component against polio, which is given orally as part ...

Afghanistan recently suspended its house-to-house polio vaccination efforts. Whether or not vaccinations will resume is uncertain. This has significant implications, because polio remains a threat ...

ISLAMABAD: A new polio case has been found in Kohat, bringing to 23 the tally of polio cases found to date this year in the country despite repeated countrywide campaigns against the crippling ...

The Yobe Government has confirmed four new cases of polio in three Local Government Areas three years after the state was declared polio-free. The Executive Secretary of the State Primary ...

Health authorities in the country have detected three more polio cases, taking the tally of cases to 21 for the year. The three recent cases were reported from Balochistan, Sindh and Khyber ...

The 24th polio case of the year has been reported from Hyderabad district in Sindh, according to the National Emergency Operations Centre (EOC) for polio eradication. The latest case involves a 29 ...

When polio vaccinators turned up at Zeeshan Ali’s village to administer drops to babies and toddlers, the teams were met with defiance and demands. Mr Ali and his fellow Kuki Khel tribesmen ...

A 10-month old Gazan boy left partially paralysed after contracting the circulating type 2 poliovirus in August was the territory’s first polio case in 25 years. Although he did not contract the ...