World Health Summit: Global leaders pledge $2.5 billion for polio eradication
2022-2026 strategy to end polio needs $4.8 billion
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
Global spread of vaccine-derived polio still a high risk: WHO
Recommends declaring transmission as a national public health emergency, ensuring vaccinations for travellers and residents
Polio eradication: ‘Need to invest in polio vaccines now to prevent resurgence’
Oral vaccine key defence against polio but also behind detection of vaccine-derived poliovirus in wastewater samples
Africa eradicates polio, but vaccine-driven outbreaks rise
In Asia, India too was declared polio-free in 2014, but cVDPV was reported 50 times in the country in the past six years
Should we worry about the long-term impact of the novel coronavirus?
Pathogens differ in their ability to affect multiple organs but they all invariably cause long-term effects