"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 ...

A World Health Organization official on Friday said the organisation has sent a request to Israel to begin the second phase ...

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 ...

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 ...

In 1988, the World Health Assembly resolved to eradicate poliomyelitis (polio), a disease capable of causing paralysis and death, by the year 2000. While the initial target date for polio eradication ...

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 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 ...

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 ...