No wild poliovirus case in South-East Asia in five years: WHO

The last reported case of wild poliovirus in the region was in West Bengal in 2011

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Scourge stamped out

Effective immunisation campaigns help Europe purge its 51 member-nations of polio

Polio panic

Shadow over eradication drive

Shared interests

Unputdownable

NITI Aayog’s Health Index: Kerala on top; Rajasthan, Uttar Pradesh among worst performers

However, Uttar Pradesh and Rajasthan are among the states that have shown progress in overall health outcomes

Cheaper vaccine to check hepatitis B

WHO's immunisation programme is expected to receive a tremendous boost thanks to the low-cost vaccine developed through genetic engineering

Number of children vaccinated last year is unimpressive

Despite an intensified immunisation scheme, children in the country are not fully immunised

COVID-19: We will write to states to resume immunisation, says Centre

NCDC says 9 coronavirus disease hotspots in country, ministry says there are many

Beauty in chemical

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'UP is core area'

Malawi records Africa’s first wild polio virus cases in over 5 years

The case was detected in a three-year-old girl who began showing signs of paralysis from November 19, 2021

Antimicrobial Awareness Week 2021: How vaccines can help reduce India’s AMR burden

The vaccine provides an indirect but significant benefit at scale to preventing the emergence of AMR

Ghana faces hurdles to achieve targets set for COVID-19 vaccine rollout

At least 60% of Ghana’s 31 million residents will need to be vaccinated for the population to attain herd immunity. But a timeline for this …

Nine in every 10 children do not get adequate diet in Jharkhand, Bihar: NFHS data

Almost 69.9 per cent of children under five years in Jharkhand are acutely suffering from anaemia

Frontier guards

Invaded and ravaged by germs and pathogens every moment of its existence, the human body has developed its own lines of defence. Among the …

Chimp's aid

Chimps are not victimised by AIDS because a lethal sickness has made their immune system resistant to the disease

Childhood immunisation begins to pick up post-pandemic, finds UN data

Recovery slow and unequal; coverage was 84% in 2022, down from 86% pre-pandemic

Polio outbreak in Papua New Guinea after 18 years; experts say it was avoidable

They put the blame on poor vaccination coverage and unsanitary living conditions

Straight jabs

Vaccines are causing autism in UK, say some doctors

Measles cases double in 1st 2 months of 2022: What does this warn us of

Conditions ripe for serious outbreaks of vaccine-preventable illnesses: WHO, UNICEF 

Measles is back: cases reported in countries that had eradicated the disease

With outbreaks reported from across the world, measles' eradication by 2020 seems difficult

COVID-19 vaccine update: How much is the world lagging behind in vaccination

COVAX expects to reach its target of two billion doses in the first quarter of 2022