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%, …
Alarmed by the recent reports of laboratory-confirmed polio-virus cases in Sindh, some highly designated international experts on polio eradication are rushing to Karachi to review the long prevailing supplementary immunisation activities and find out the loopholes. A source privy to the immunization initiatives in the province said that an emergency …
There were 1,313 cases of polio last year. So far this year, there have been 558 cases. Here is a list of countries that have reported polio this year: India: 258 Nigeria: 247 Angola: 12 Pakistan: 11 Niger: 9 Afghanistan: 8 Chad: 4 Nepal: 3 Democratic Republic of the Congo: …
Pushpa M. Bhargava Even the appropriate WHO document clearly states that there is evidence that OPV has not worked in developing countries. That Sabin's oral polio vaccine (OPV) has not been able to eradicate polio in our country, is now well established (inter alia, Economic and Political Weekly, 4-11-06, p. …
Two new cases of polio have been detected -- one in Kohat and the other in Karachi in recent days, taking to 11 the number of children hit by the dreaded virus this year. The national manager of the Expanded Programme on Immunisation, Dr H B Memon, told Dawn that …
Cash Incentives Making People Suspicious Kounteya Sinha | TNN Frequent polio vaccination rounds is causing fatigue among vaccinators while cash incentives to mothers for getting their child vaccinated is actually making them suspicious about the repeated oral polio vaccine (OPV) rounds. These are the findings of a study conducted by …
» Authorities in Pakistan have confirmed one more polio case in Sindh province, bringing the total number of cases to eight in 2008. The country has reported 19 polio cases in the past six months. » After more than 9,000 years of silence, Chile's Chaite'n volcano erupted on May 2. …
The India Expert Advisory Group (IEAG) on Polio has recommended that the Health Ministry should focus on eliminating Type-1 polio virus this year and prepare to eradicate Type-3 virus transmission by 2009. "India is leading an intensified polio eradication effort against Type-1 virus and has recorded the lowest ever transmission …
Continuous pulse polio rounds is one of the reasons contributing to poor coverage under other immunization drives in the city, the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) has admitted after a first ever random sample study on such drives. It has also stressed on improved coverage of immunization in the slums, where …
State's second polio case this year detected in powerloom town that has a huge migrant population, child had not been immunised in UP Fourteen-month-old Raj Gupta sleeps soundly on the hospital bed at the Indira Gandhi Memorial hospital, Bhiwandi, even as his mother eyes well up at mention of polio. …
The Sindh health department will field its own team of senior officials to monitor the special anti-polio vaccinations to be administered to children in various districts of Sindh during the mop-up campaign planned to be conducted in 14 districts of the province from May 26, it was learnt on Wednesday. …
Polio is injurious and dangerous for human life and it is endeavour of present Government to eradicate the same from our province at all costs. This was stated by Chief Minister of Sindh Syed Qaim Ali Shah while talking to media on the occasion of POLIO FREE WALK organised by …
A polio case has been reported in the district, which is the first this year in the Frontier province. The victim is 18-month-old Niamatullah, son of Musa Jan, of the Azakhel village, Nowshera. Health officials said the stool sample of the child had been sent to laboratory on April 27, …
While Sindh has become a key battleground for the eradication of polio from the country, its newly inducted Health Minister Dr Sagheer Ahmed on Thursday declared that an increase in polio cases was mainly due to the use of polluted water. The minister asked the district governments to ensure supply …
Sindh, which has planned another mop-up campaign in 14 of its districts after reports of seven confirmed polio cases during the current year, is also anxious to learn more about the efficacy of oral polio vaccines (OPVs) administered to thousands of children up to five years old in the province …
The Expanded Programme on Immunisation, Sindh chapter, has finalised all arrangements for a three-day polio eradication campaign being launched on Tuesday in the province. Children, from newborns to five-year-olds, will be administered the oral anti-polio vaccine at their doorsteps in the sub-national immunisation days. EPI officials have requested parents to …
Hearsay among people in Uttar Pradesh has led to the high incidence of polio in the state. A team which went to administer polio drops to under five children here, met with a considerable resistance from parents. "These drops will make our children paralytic',said some parents in Harola village. Dr. …
The National Highways and Motorway Police (NH∓) will facilitate district polio teams in the administration of Oral Polio Vaccine (OPV) to the children travelling on intercity routes at toll plazas within their jurisdictions across the country on national and sub-national immunisation days. Sources privy to the anti-polio activities in the …
Polio resurfaces in Pakistan: Efforts to eradicate polio appear to have taken a blow following confirmation of a third case in Pakistan's Sindh Province this year. The disease was confirmed in a 16-month-old child in Shikarpur district, Sindh, on March 21. Following this, the health ministry launched a three-day campaign …
Only one case of P-I wild virus has been reported this year in Delhi against two cases of polio reported in 2007 whereas 866 cases were reported at the national level during 2007, said Delhi Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit launching another new phase of the Special Intensified Pulse Polio Immunisation …
Four 10-month-old babies died within minutes of being administered an antimeasles vaccine at two medical camps in Tamil Nadu's Thiruvallur district on Wednesday. Three girls died at a centre in Pennalurpettai village, about 75km from Chennai. The fourth, a baby boy, died after getting the shot in Venkatapuram village near …
