A programme for the polio victim?

No connection with patients

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

Polio workers shot dead in Pakistan, country faces health crisis

Country’s northwest town Peshawar is world’s ‘largest reservoir’ of polio virus, says WHO

Attack on critics

Radio>> Polio • Nigeria

Primitive medicine

BUY DRUGS

Cripple effect

South Asia

Polio - alive and kicking

The polio virus is possibly the most innocuous virus that affects humans. The improvement of sanitation standards across the world has meant …

Polio vaccine compulsory for those travelling to select countries

India is in no mood to risk the polio free status it achieved earlier this year

Umaru Shehu: Nigerian public health giant who played a major role in polio eradication

His efforts, with others, culminated in Nigeria achieving polio-free status on June 18, 2020

Blitzkrieg against polio

Creation of a lifetime

Scientists synthesise a working biological entity for the first time

Did the polio vaccine start AIDS?

The origin of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) has generated considerable interest and controversy amongst scientists the world over. Flaming …

Mode matters

A proposed injectable polio vaccine may cut down the risk of contracting the paralysing disease

Pakistan sees 70 per cent drop in polio cases

Government attributes decline to crackdown on militants

Fresh cases of polio in Syria spark fears of global disease outbreak

Many people from Syria, who have fled West Asia to escape civil strife, may carry the disease to nations where they seek refuge

Polio nemesis dead

Herbal healing

UNITED NATIONS

Scourge stamped out

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

Polio panic

Shadow over eradication drive

Unputdownable

The jab jigsaw

Polio poser for India: what's the right remedy?

World Health Summit: Global leaders pledge $2.5 billion for polio eradication

2022-2026 strategy to end polio needs $4.8 billion