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Border controls cut polio cases by 60%

Another polio case was confirmed on Tuesday in North Waziristan district of Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa (K-P), raising the total ...
The Regional Reference Laboratory for Polio Eradication at the National Institute of Health (NIH) has confirmed a case of ...
It is polio, a highly contagious viral disease that attacks the nervous system, often causing partial or full paralysis.
Polio cases in Pakistan reached 31 for 2025 after a North Waziristan child tested positive. Despite declining trends, ...
Fifteen years after reporting its last case of wild poliovirus, the WHO South-East Asia Region has successfully sustained its ...
In 2009, India accounted for 741 polio cases, representing 60 per cent of the global burden at the time. However, through an ...
A polio virus was detected in a child in Pakistan's northwest Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, the health ministry said in a ...
Qatar Red Crescent Society (QRCS) and the Gates Foundation have co organised the Afghanistan Humanitarian Partners Workshop, with over ...
ISLAMABAD -- Pakistan reported fewer than half as many cases of polio in 2025 than the previous year, a sign of progress in its eradication campaign even as vaccinators faced repeated militant attacks ...
Since the pandemic, more than half of counties in the U.S. reported an increase in kindergartners' opting out of vaccination ...
Fifteen years ago, a child in West Bengal was diagnosed with what would become India’s final case of wild polio. India — a nation that shouldered 60% of the world’s polio burden at one point — had ...
UNICEF and partners have launched a campaign to vaccinate 6 million children in Sudan's Darfur states against devastating ...