The progress towards eradication of poliovirus globally is one of the greatest success stories of the global health community. When the Global Polio Eradication Initiative started in 1988, polio paralysed more than 1000 children worldwide every day. Since then the global incidence of wild poliovirus cases has decreased by 99.9%, …
Lucknow: The district administration and health officials have called upon Lucknowites to support the cause of polio eradication. The doorto-door teams constituted as a part of the national policy will start their visits from Monday morning.
Back in Aurangabad after nine years a fresh case of polio has come to light in Aurangabad district of Maharashtra after nine years. Four-year-old Arbaz Hasan Khan was diagnosed with the viral disease on October 4 in the foothill village of Vetalwadi in Soygaon tehsil. Arbaz got polio despite having …
Pakistan reports more polio cases: Pakistan reported four polio cases just two days after the much-publicized anti-polio campaign concluded on October 16. Three polio victims are from Punjab and one from the North West Frontier Province. These cases take the number of children incapacitated by the disease this year to …
Rajahmundry Nov. 13: The Centre has proposed to introduce injec-table trivalent polio vaccine in the immunisation schedule of children below one year, shortly. Unlike the present conventional practice of administering oral polio drops to children in the age group of zero to five years in the regular immunisation drive and …
To check recurring cases of polio in the country, health ministry is going to introduce an Injectible Polio Vaccine (IPV) in nine districts of UP and Bihar from where maximum cases have been reported. The ministry will introduce IPV in the two vulnerable states alongside the ongoing countrywide oral immunisation …
After failing to end recurring cases of polio in the country, 80 per cent of which have occurred in Bihar and Uttar Pradesh so far, the Centre has now decided to introduce injectable polio vaccine (IPV). The IPV will be introduced in nine districts of Uttar Pradesh initially and then …
There seems to be more forces backing the virulent polio virus in Uttar Pradesh. Or else why would children suffer from the crippling disease despite being
The resurfacing of the Polio 1 virus , which was largely believed to be on the verge of eradication in the country, in UP has set off alarm bells among health experts across the country. The virus re-entered the state through Bihar and has now established a firm hold in …
The health department has blamed the World Health Organisation (WHO) for rise in polio cases in the NWFP, sources claimed. A complaint in this regard was made by the executive district officer (EDO), health Peshawar, in response to an explanation sought by the provincial secretary health, regarding rise in the …
DH News Service, Bangalore: Even after 13 years of Polio immunisation programme as many as 486 cases have been reported this year alone in 87 districts. Recent outbreaks of polio cases in different parts of the country have cast doubts as to why children are getting infected by the virus …
New polio vaccination strategy suggested Tribune News Service New Delhi, October 23 The Indian Academy of Paediatrics (IAP), the premier association of pediatricians in India, has expressed deep concern over increase in the number of polio cases in the country and has recommended a new vaccination strategy in immunization schedule …
October 24 is observed as the birth anniversary of Jonas Salk, leader of a team that invented one of the two anti-polio vaccines in 1955. The disease had been rendering countless children paralyzed for life until the vaccine was developed. The day is globally known as
A newer vaccine that targets the most common form of the polio virus works up to four times better than the conventional vaccine that tries to protect against all three types of the crippling disease, researchers said on Wednesday. The so-called monovalent vaccine may help speed the fight to eradicate …
The last pulse polio immunisation drive was cancelled; there is no surety that the next one, scheduled for November 9, will be carried out Mumbai may be a high-risk area for polio virus but the pulse polio eradication programme for the city does not seem to figure on the government
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A three-day anti-polio campaign kicked off across Sindh on Monday to meet the target of immunising over 2.24 million children under the age of five. The campaign has been launched by the Expanded Programme on Immunization (EPI), Sindh, which has mobilsed 21,000 lady health workers, 2,200 vaccinators and other health …
100-Odd Families Lift 30-Yr-Old Self-Imposed Ban Ending their 30-year-long hiatus, 100 out of 124 families of the Muslim-dominated Karamat Ki Chowki in Kareli have accepted anti-polio vaccination for their wards. Buoyed by the change of heart, the health department has organised three vaccination camps in the area in the last …
Islamabad, September 19 Fighting between the Pakistani Army and Islamist militants as well as hostility towards vaccinating teams has led to a sharp increase in polio cases in Pakistan this year, health workers said on Friday. Pakistan is one of the few countries where the deadly, crippling disease still exists. …
: A polio case was detected in Ladheywala Warraich village when a six-month-old infant was tested positive while a health department mobile team continued on Friday administering anti-polio vaccine to all children of the village up to five years of age. District Health Officer Dr Ryasat Ali Nara said that …
