Pakistan was one of the last countries from where the poliovirus had yet to be completely eradicated. The country came close to achieving zero poliovirus cases in 2021 when only one infection was reported.
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Alexander was 6 when he began using an iron lung, a cylinder that encased his body as the air pressure in the chamber forced air into and out of his lungs.
World Polio Day is celebrated every year on October 24. On this day, efforts are made to make people aware of the importance of polio vaccination.
New York City is being forced to confront polio as city health officials are struggling to vaccinate vulnerable populations against monkeypox and adjusting to changing COVID-19 guidelines.
Polio New York cases: The polio virus has now been found in seven different wastewater samples in two adjacent counties north of New York City, health officials said.
Polio: An 18-month-old infant was paralysed by wild poliovirus in Pakistan's northwestern Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province (KP), as the overall increased to 13 with all of them from southern KP.
In March this year, gunmen in northwestern Pakistan shot and killed a female polio worker as she was returning home after taking part in the country's latest anti-polio campaign.
Authorities stressed that the risk to the public overall is “extremely low.” They added that the virus has been detected only in sewage samples, and no cases of paralysis have been reported.
Experts have described a deep mistrust among Pashtun communities living on the border region of Pakistan and Afghanistan against Oral Polio Vaccination (OPV) drives a recent wave of insurgency and attacks on security forces in former tribal areas
This is the first case of polio detected in Israel since 1989, Xinhua news agency reported, citing the Israeli media.
India on Sunday evacuated 168 people including 107 Indians from Kabul in a military transport aircraft of the IAF amid the deteriorating security situation in the Afghan capital city following its takeover by the Taliban a week back.
In a shocking lapse, at least 12 kids were administered hand sanitizer instead of the oral polio vaccine drops at a Primary Health Centre in Ghatanji's Kapsi-Kopari village in the district, officials said here on Monday.
Vaccination teams have also been deployed at bus terminals, railway stations, airports and ferry crossing to vaccinate children in transit to ensure no child misses the life-saving dose.
On Saturday, President Ram Nath Kovind on Saturday launched the pulse polio programme for 2021 by administering polio drops to children below five years of age at the Rashtrapati Bhawan.
The National Immunisation Day (NID), commonly known as Pulse Polio Immunisation programme, was scheduled for January 17 across India.
Pakistan could be the next country on the journey to a polio-free world, the World Health Organisation has said. Pakistan is one of the three countries, along with Afghanistan and Nigeria, where polio is still endemic.
Researchers in the US are looking at the possibility of using tuberculosis and polio vaccines in providing protection from the deadly coronavirus, according to a media report.
The World Health Organization (WHO) has extended travel restrictions to Pakistan for another three months over the frequent outbreak of vaccine-derived poliovirus type 2 (cVDPV2) in all provinces and an alarming surge in Wild Poliovirus Type 1 (WP1) cases.
Pakistan has decided to import polio markers from India, months after it suspended trade ties with New Delhi following the abrogation of Article 370
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